Paulus Potter, 'Landscape with Cattle and a Woman by a Stream', 1647
About the work
Overview
Key facts
Details
- Full title
- Landscape with Cattle and a Woman cleaning a Bucket by a Stream
- Artist
- Paulus Potter
- Artist dates
- 1625 - 1654
- Date made
- 1647
- Medium and support
- Oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 42.5 × 37.5 cm
- Inscription summary
- Signed; Dated
- Acquisition credit
- On loan from a private collection
- Inventory number
- L1316
- Location
- Not on display
- Image copyright
- On loan from a private collection, © Private Collection
- Collection
- Main Collection
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