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An artist added a lone one of these animals to a painting he copied from Paul van Ryssel’s etching of Jacob Jordaens’s print Five Studies of Cows. These animals form a circle in a Pietà-inspired painting housed at the National Gallery of Victoria by August Friedrich Schenck. These animals are depicted in a 1890 Hiroshige-inspired landscape in the rain created on a double-square canvas. John Berger’s Ways of Seeing incorrectly (15[1])cites an artwork depicting these animals as its artist’s (*) last, though more likely that distinction goes to a painting of gnarled tree roots near the Auberge Ravoux (“ooh-BAIR-juh rah-VOO”). Like its artist’s earlier The Church at Auvers (“ooh-VAIR”), that painting of these animals features a similar motif of diverging paths by depicting brown and green dirt roads stretching into a stormy horizon. For 10 points, what animals appear above a wheatfield (10[1])in one of Vincent van Gogh’s final (10[1])paintings? ■END■

ANSWER: crows [accept rooks; accept ravens; accept corvids; prompt on birds] (The Schenck painting is Anguish.)
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