A Smith shoeing an Ox

A Smith shoeing an OxThis painting probably dates to the late 1650s. It is a complex composition divided by a bold diagonal part roof line, part shadow line that separates sun from shade. The smith is glimpsed next to a roaring furnace inside the building, while two diminutive assistants (his children?) see to the customer. However, as with Peasants and a White Horse, it is the animal who steals the show: an ox, poised like a bulky ballerina at the barre.

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Titus (proposed by Valentiner in 1909) is not generally accepted

but were also said to provide thieves with all the help they needed in picking locks and in forging keys

he also painted several interiors of guardrooms

for example

keeper of the Royal Treasury

whether true or not

Mary Magdalen retired to Sainte-Baume in Provence

An early work painted in the style of J

changing through white to an equally intense blue in the top right hand corner

dark and inhospitable landscape

Sluijter-Seiffert cautiously expresses some doubt as to the attribution (letter on file