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Cows in a Meadow near a Farm
Also titled Koeien in de wei bij een boerderij
Paulus Potter (Enkhuizen, 1625–1654)
1653
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 10.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Jonkheer J.S.H. van de Poll Bequest, Amsterdam
- 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
Paulus Potter favoured painting animals in the countryside and at farms. He rendered the typical Dutch landscape – the pollard willows, the meadow, and the pond in the background –with great precision. In this painting the sun hangs low, calling to mind the late afternoon, when the languid cows and sheep take their rest.
