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Cow Relieving Itself
Nicolaes Berchem (Dutch, 1620-1683)
1635/1683
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Plate: 20.8 × 26.3 cm (8 1/4 × 10 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- Holland
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Son of the well-known still-life painter Pieter Claesz., Berchem probably went to Italy about 1653/55. He became famous as an Italianate artist specializing in arcadian landscapes. He made about sixty prints, which are notable for the rendering of sunlight.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
