The Cowherd
Paulus Potter
1643 (printed 1868?)
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 18.1 × 20.2 cm (7 1/8 × 7 15/16 in.) sheet: 21 × 25.5 cm (8 1/4 × 10 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ellwanger/Mescha Collection
Accession Number
2017.19.36
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. ...