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Paulus Potter

The Cowherd, 1643 (printed 1868?)

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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.)

Credit Line

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein no. 14, State vii/vii

Accession Number

2017.19.36

Artists / Makers

Paulus Potter (artist) Dutch, 1625 - 1654

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Paulus Potter In et f. 1649; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite :The Herdsman

Provenance

A. Thompson Ellwanger III and Gregory E. Mescha, Baltimore; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Ellwanger III and Mr. Gregory E. Mescha, A. Thompson, Mr.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge: no. 14, vii/vii

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