Paulus Potter

Dutch, 1625 - 1654

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Paulus Potter, A Cow Standing and Another Lying Down, 1650, etching, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.15.2

A Cow Standing and Another Lying Down

Paulus Potter · 1650 · etching ·  Accession ID  1982.15.2

Paulus Potter, Two Cows Seen from Behind, 1650, etching, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.15.8

Two Cows Seen from Behind

Paulus Potter · 1650 · etching ·  Accession ID  1982.15.8

Paulus Potter, Standing Cow (Cow with a Crumpled Horn), 1650, etching, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.15.5

Standing Cow (Cow with a Crumpled Horn)

Paulus Potter · 1650 · etching ·  Accession ID  1982.15.5

Paulus Potter, Bull, 1650, etching, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.15.1

Bull

Paulus Potter · 1650 · etching ·  Accession ID  1982.15.1

Paulus Potter, Two Oxen Fighting, 1650, etching, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.15.7

Two Oxen Fighting

Paulus Potter · 1650 · etching ·  Accession ID  1982.15.7

Paulus Potter, Pissing Cow, 1650, etching, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.15.6

Pissing Cow

Paulus Potter · 1650 · etching ·  Accession ID  1982.15.6

Paulus Potter, Cow Lying Down near a Fence, 1650, etching, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.15.3

Cow Lying Down near a Fence

Paulus Potter · 1650 · etching ·  Accession ID  1982.15.3

Paulus Potter, Grazing Cow, 1650, etching, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.15.4

Grazing Cow

Paulus Potter · 1650 · etching ·  Accession ID  1982.15.4

Two men hold the mouth of a horse open to work on its teeth as a third, short boy or man looks on in front of a building to our left, where a blacksmith works in this vertical painting. All the people have peach-colored skin. A dark horse with a white stripe down its nose stands in a small, shed-like enclosure covered with a peaked roof, which is attached to the brick blacksmith’s shop. A balding man with a white beard and fringe of white hair, and wearing glasses, a tattered crimson-red shirt, and dark pants, holds a long, rod-like instrument in the horse’s gaping mouth. A hat lies on the ground near his feet. The man next to him is cleanshaven and wears a tall hat, a dark jacket with red sleeves, and dark pants and boots. He stands facing the horse with his mouth and eyes wide open. The horse’s nose is caught in long-handled, vice-like tongs, presumably to make the horse show its teeth. A noticeably shorter man or boy stands behind the pair, to our right, and looks on. He wears a tall, floppy hat, and his dark clothes are worn. His face is deep in shadow under the hat but he might have a mustache and beard. A white horse stands with its rump angled toward us behind the trio. Almost lost in shadow, a wide-shouldered man works on a hot piece of metal, glowing orange, next to a fire just inside the doorway to the building. Charcoal-gray smoke pours from a chimney on the roof. One dog lies down in front of the door and another frolics nearby. A chicken and a rooster peck at the dirt ground to our right. The horizon of the tree-lined landscape comes about a quarter of the way up the composition, and cream-colored, puffy clouds float across a blue sky above. Two people stands near a cow in the deep distance, near the trees.
Paulus Potter, A Farrier's Shop, 1648, oil on panel, Widener Collection, 1942.9.52

A Farrier's Shop

Paulus Potter · 1648 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1942.9.52

Paulus Potter, The Cowherd, 1643 (printed 1868?), etching on laid paper, Ellwanger/Mescha Collection, 2017.19.36

The Cowherd

Paulus Potter · 1643 (printed 1868?) · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2017.19.36

Bibliography

1753

  • Houbraken, Arnold. De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen. 3 vols. in 1. The Hague, 1753 (Reprint: Amsterdam, 1976): 2:125-130.

1829

  • Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters. 9 vols. London, 1829-1842: 5(1834):113-165; 9(1842):620-628.

1906

  • Michel, Émile. Paulus Potter. Paris, 1906.

1907

  • Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. 8 vols. Translated by Edward G. Hawke. London, 1907-1927: 4(1912):582-670.

1924

  • Zoege von Manteuffel, Kurt. Paulus Potter: acht farbige wiedergaben seiner werke. Seemanns Künstlermappen 70. Leipzig, 1924.

1932

  • Von Arps-Aubert, Rudolf. Die Entwicklung des reinen Tierbildes in der Kunst des Paulus Potter. Halle, 1932.

1985

  • Walsh, Amy. "Paulus Potter: His works and their meaning." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, New York, 1985.

1987

  • Sutton, Peter C., et al. Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Painting. Exh. cat. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art. Boston, 1987: 416-422.

1991

  • MacLaren, Neil. The Dutch School, 1600-1900. Revised and expanded by Christopher Brown. 2 vols. National Gallery Catalogues. London, 1991: 1:313-314.

1994

  • Walsh, Amy L., Edwin Buijsen, and Ben P. J. Broos. Paulus Potter: Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. Exh. cat. Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague. Zwolle, 1994.

1995

  • Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 197-198.