Cow Drinking
Nicolaes Berchem
1680
Medium
Etching on paper
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.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
12947
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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.