Claude Lorrain
French, 1600-1682
The Cowherd
INV-2840
Claude Lorrain
French, 1600-16821636
The Cowherd
Claude Lorrain French, 1600-1682 →etchingprint
Date
1636
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 12.6 × 19.5 cm (5 × 7 11/16 in.); Sheet, cut within platemark: 13.1 × 20.1 cm (5 3/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Clarence Buckingham Collection
In this Claude's most beloved print, the scene suceedes in conveying the atmosphere of an afternoon by a river, with all the poetry and harmony of pastoral life.
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