Cowherd driving three horned cattle before him; below, in the foreground, a recumbent steer and a standing steer, marsh and trees beyond
Paulus Potter
1649
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 7 1/8 x 7 15/16 in. (18.1 x 20.1 cm) sheet: 9 15/16 x 11 5/16 in. (25.2 x 28.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.460
Tags
CowsTrees
About the Artist
Paulus Potter · 1625–1654
Paulus Potter (1625–1654) was a Dutch Golden Age painter whose short life — he died at just twenty-eight years of age — belied an artistic achievement of remarkable originality and influence. Born in Enkhuizen in 1625, Potter trained under his father, the painter Pieter Potter, and later in Amsterdam and Delft, where he absorbed the technical standards of the flourishing Dutch painting tradition. ...