Cows Crossing a Ford

{{Short description|1836 painting by Jules Dupré}}

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| image_file = Cows Crossing a Ford MET DP232030.jpg

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| title = Cows Crossing a Ford

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| artist = Jules Dupré

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| year = 1836

| material = Oil on canvas

| height_metric = 36.2

| width_metric = 62.5

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| museum = Metropolitan Museum of Art

| city = New York

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Cows Crossing a Ford is an oil on canvas painting by French artist Jules Dupré, from 1836. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Cows Crossing a Ford|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436241?searchField=All&sortBy=relevance&what=Paintings&od=on&ft=*&offset=20&rpp=20&pos=30|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2018-11-03|website=www.metmuseum.org}}

The work depicts farmers driving their cattle across a river in Limousin, a region of central France. The way in which the low horizon and sky are rendered in the painting are a testament to Dupré's interest in the works of John Constable and Richard Parkes Bonington, two landscape painters. Cows Crossing a Ford is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Cows Crossing a Ford|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436241?searchField=All&sortBy=relevance&what=Paintings&od=on&ft=*&offset=20&rpp=20&pos=30|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2018-11-03|website=www.metmuseum.org}}

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