| Date: | may be 1883 |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 30 x 50 in. (76 x 127 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F. Schafer", fraktur hand |
| Verso: | l/r "on Russian River, California.", fraktur hand. u/r "S. 83." in the same hand. |
| Provenance: | private collection, Berkeley, California, by c. 1935; by descent to private collection, southern California. |
| Site: | The Russian River flows into the Pacific Ocean about 100 miles north of San Francisco, California. |
| Description: | Three cows, two brown and one black, stand in the grass on a willow-treed point at the right of a river that flows gently along a sandy bank Behind the cows on the right is a steep, conifer forested hillside, at the base of which two snags lean amidst high brush. Only a bit of the left bank is visible, with two tall conifers and a standing snag. Upriver, under a cloudy sky, is another steep hillside on the right. (From the painting, 8 December 1999) |
| Note: | The speculative date is based on the otherwise unexplained verso inscription "S. 83." |
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