# Setting off to Market

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## Artwork

- Artist: [TROYON, Constant](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/troyon-constant-r52e8bb555a77aa>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 261 x 211 cm

## Commentary

Setting off to Market 1859 Oil on canvas, 261 x 211 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Animals became frequent elements in Troyon&#39;s paintings after the late 1840s, when he discovered to his delight the Dutch animal painters, especially Paulus Potter. The haze of a summer morning hangs over this landscape and invests it with a lightness reminiscent of Corot; it anticipates Impressionism later in the century but, on such a large canvas, comes across more as a decorative effect.

## Related artworks

- [Cows Grazing in a Glade](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/troyon-constant-r52e8bb555a77aa/cows-grazing-in-a-glade-r1051d75cda47fe>)
- [Cows in the Field](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/troyon-constant-r52e8bb555a77aa/cows-in-the-field-r2d0afa610ea15c>)
- [Return of the Herd](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/troyon-constant-r52e8bb555a77aa/return-of-the-herd-r5c2879c45630fd>)
- [The Angler](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/troyon-constant-r52e8bb555a77aa/the-angler-r34139910e6e185>)
- [The Cattle Tender, Fontainebleau](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/troyon-constant-r52e8bb555a77aa/the-cattle-tender-fontainebleau-rb8fef7f9ea990a>)
- [The Ford](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/troyon-constant-r52e8bb555a77aa/the-ford-r70b9a9b14df620>)

## Attribution

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