Woman Milking an Ewe
Medium
Soft ground etching in black on paper
Dimensions
Image: 9.5 × 12.7 cm (3 3/4 × 5 in.); Sheet: 9.6 × 13 cm (3 13/16 × 5 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
148700
Art Historical Context
In the quaint etching *Woman Milking an E*, Dutch artist Cornelis van Noorde captures a serene moment of rural life, likely from the 18th. Van Noorde, a Haarlem-based engraver and painter active the mid-1700s, specialized in genre scenes that celebrated the simplicity of everyday countryside activities. Here, a woman tends to an ewe, evoking the timeless rhythm of agrarian labor in the Dutch lowlands—a nod to the enduring tradition of peasant imagery that followed the Golden Age. This intimate work is a soft ground etching in black ink on paper, measuring just 9.5 × 12.7 cm. Soft ground etchi...
About the Artist
Cornelis van Noorde · 1731–1795
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