Cow Drinking
Nicolaes Berchem · 1680 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Nicolaes Berchem was the most famous Dutch painter of idyllic Italian views, but he also made over 50 etchings of pastoral subjects dealing with shepherds and their animals. This mature and ambitious print (in which the cow is, in fact, not drinking, but much else seems to be happening) was made from a 1679 drawing that is now in the Dutuit Collection, Paris.
The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Details
- Maker
- Nicolaes Berchem, Dutch, 1620-1683
- Date
- 1680
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 27.7 × 37.4 cm (10 15/16 × 14 3/4 in.); Sheet: 28.1 × 37.8 cm (11 1/8 × 14 15/16 in.)
- Place of origin
- Holland
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view
- Credit line
- The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
Image: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0
