Nicolaes Berchem
Dutch, 1620-1683
Cow Drinking
INV-1294
Nicolaes Berchem
Dutch, 1620-16831680
Cow Drinking
Nicolaes Berchem Dutch, 1620-1683 →etchingprint
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
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.
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