拍品专文
Troyon was fascinated by the pastel medium. Early in his career, while working at the Sevres porcelain factory, he executed many pastels in the style of Watteau and Boucher, which were well received by the marketplace. Like his fellow artist Millet, Troyon never ceased to work in this medium, even when he was achieving fame and fortune with his critically acclaimed and popular paintings of animals. In the sale of his works after his death (Htel Drouot, Paris, 29-30 January, 1865) there were numbered forty four pastels, including drawings heightened with pastel.
There is a similar pastel Oxen Ploughing (97.5 x 131 cm.) in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Bequest of Thomas G. Appleton) which was executed in 1855.
There is a similar pastel Oxen Ploughing (97.5 x 131 cm.) in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Bequest of Thomas G. Appleton) which was executed in 1855.