The Return to the Fold, Oil on canvas, 19 3/4 x 33 7/8 in. (50. 2 x 86 cm), Paintings, Anton Mauve (Dutch, Zaandam 1838?1888 Arnhem), A leading member of the Hague school (the Dutch counterpart to the Barbizon school of painters in France), Mauve painted everyday subjects drawn from his local landscape in southwest Holland. This work depicts one of Mauve's favorite and most popular subjects, a shepherd and his flock