Lugardon Albert
Cattle in a Lakeside Pasture
Oil on canvas signed lower left
In Cattle in a Lakeside Pasture, Albert Lugardon displays the full measure of his talent as a naturalist and landscape painter. The composition, marked by its quiet simplicity, depicts a small group of cattle resting and grazing near the edge of a lake under a clear morning sky. Lugardon adopts a grounded perspective, favoring intimacy and truth over the grand spectacle of nature.Read more
The cool clarity of the sky, the golden tones of the grass, and the warm hues of the animals blend in a balanced and serene harmony. Nothing feels incidental — every element, from the posture of the herdsman to the distant line of mountains, contributes to the calm order of the scene. Trained under Ary Scheffer and shaped by the Geneva landscape tradition of Calame, Lugardon combines the precision of academic drawing with a direct observation of nature.
His meticulous rendering of light — grazing the cattle’s hides and dissolving into the hazy distance — reveals a sensibility both scientific and poetic, characteristic of 19th-century Swiss painting. Far from theatricality, the work conveys a quiet truth: a moment suspended in which nature and human labor coexist in stillness and harmony.
Balancing realism and contemplation, this painting stands among Lugardon’s most refined expressions of Alpine and pastoral landscape art.
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