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Cow Drinking
Nicolaes Berchem (Dutch, 1620-1683)
1680
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Classification
- 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.)
- Culture
- Holland
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
