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The Cattle Herd
Also titled De ossendrift
Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem (Haarlem, 1620–1683)
1656
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 38 cm x width 62.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
A herder drives his cattle through a ford in the river. The unruly creatures splash water, to the displeasure of a peasant woman, who is also wading through the water. Another woman is mounted on a laden ox. Berchem combined the southern character of the landscape with the kind of pine trees that one would expect to see in the north.
