# Cow Drinking

- By: Nicolaes Berchem (Dutch, 1620-1683)
- Date: 1680
- Medium: Etching on paper
- Classification: Print
- 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
- Credit line: The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/12947)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/48127c801dd7399f464862b2ba29ef85.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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