Twee ploegende paarden 1901

Pieter Dupont's 1901 etching, "Twee ploegende paarden," captures a farmer guiding two powerful horses as they pull a plow across a field. The detailed depiction of the animals' musculature and the textured depiction of the field evoke the laborious nature of farm work. Dupont's work often focused on the lives of ordinary people and the beauty of the natural world, and this etching is a testament to his skill in portraying both. The work's simple composition and focus on realism are characteristic of etching, a printmaking technique that uses acid to etch an image into a metal plate.