Mannen met elkaar pratend op een veemarkt 1836 - 1912

This pen and ink drawing by Dutch artist Isaac Weissenbruch depicts a scene from a cattle market. The drawing, titled “Mannen met elkaar pratend op een veemarkt,” which translates to “Men Talking to Each Other at a Cattle Market,” features a lively scene of a bustling market. A group of men stand in the center, discussing the price of a cow in the foreground. The work, which is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, is a quintessential example of 19th-century Dutch realism, capturing the daily life of ordinary people.