Oil on paper, mounted to linen (wax-lined), unsigned, retains Weatherspoon Art Museum label to verso, presented in a gilt frame.

Frame dimensions 16.75 x 22.5 in.

Deaccessioned from and being sold to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro

Gifted to Weatherspoon Art Museum in 1970 by Mr. M. Leonard Schoonman. Schoonman's father was a close friend of the artist.

Henry Singlewood Bisbing began his career as a wood engraver and then became a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1876, he studied in Munich, Germany at the Academy and in 1879 in Brussels as a student of the famous animal painter, JHL de Haas, who later said that Bisbing was among the most famous of animal painters. He finally settled in Paris and painted rural scenes of France and Holland. He is known for painting landscapes, animals/cattle, and genre scenes.

Good estate condition, far right edge reveals later paint onto the linen area of the surface, same to left edge. A few minor pin point areas of loss; wear and rubbing to gilded frame.