The Cowherd
Claude Lorrain
1636
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 12.6 × 19.5 cm (5 × 7 11/16 in.); Sheet, cut within platemark: 13.1 × 20.1 cm (5 3/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
In this Claude's most beloved print, the scene suceedes in conveying the atmosphere of an afternoon by a river, with all the poetry and harmony of pastoral life.
