799 - W. Haupt, Grazing White Mare with Brown Foal in a Pasture

W. Haupt, Grazing White Mare with Brown Foal in a Pasture Oil on canvas, signed lower right, a white mare grazes in a summer pasture, her head lowered deep to the ground, to her right stands her brown foal facing the viewer, the background closed by a dense wall of trees in green, blue and ochre, the grass in the foreground laid in short impasto strokes, condition commensurate with age, canvas strongly undulating, image 27.5x41 cm (HxW), framed, frame width 3.5 cm The motif of a mare with her foal in a pasture is among the most enduring themes of German animal painting and was produced in great numbers for the middle-class interior from the late 19th century well into the post-war period. The present work stands in this tradition, with atmospherically painted light and a brisk, open brushwork.