Getting started with the collection:
Blister Heads Cows in the Polder near Zevenhoven
Han Singels, 2004
Around 2009, the Rijksmuseum’s Dutch History Department asked photographers to help devise new approaches in documentary photography. Singels – a classic photojournalist in black-andwhite – immediately donated his latest work: a lifesize colour photograph of the cows Vivian and Vera, a modern variation on Paulus Potter’s The Bull. Shortly thereafter, Vivian and Vera’s owner, the old farmer Kees Verhaar, passed on his forty cows to his successor.
- Artwork typephotograph
- Object numberNG-2009-142
- Dimensionsheight 1228 mm x width 1430 mm, height 882 mm x width 1104 mm
- Physical characteristicschromogene druk