Lot 914: Adolph D. Rinck (French/New Orleans, 1810-1871,

Adolph D. Rinck (French/New Orleans, 1810-1871, active New Orleans 1840-1871), "Cattle Along the Shore", 1845, oil on canvas, signed and dated "1845" lower left, 18 in. x 37 in., in a period frame. Note: Adolph Rinck was a prolific portrait painter in New Orleans beginning in 1840 In addition to his art career, Rinck also had a strong interest in agriculture and wrote a pamphlet about his ideas on the model farm. He bought a farm in Algiers where, by 1859, he practiced scientific agriculture. The painting offered here is a landscape depicting a herd of cattle at rest along the river bank. Palmetto bushes frame the composition in the foreground while a distant tree line shows the curve of the Mississippi River. This rare Louisiana landscape by Rinck shows his affinity for livestock as they are serenely depicted in a moment of tranquility.