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Cattle at Rest on a Hillside in the Alps, 1885. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 54.9 × 66.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Cattle at Rest on a Hillside in the Alps
- Artist
- Rosa Bonheur (French, 1822–1899)
- Date
- 1885
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 54.9 × 66.4 cm (21 5/8 × 26 1/8 in.); Framed: 76.9 × 87.2 × 8.3 cm (30 1/4 × 34 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- A. A. Munger Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1822–1899
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.




