About the Artwork
Cowherd
1649
Paul Potter
1625 - 1654
Dutch
Unknown
Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 7 1/8 × 8 inches (18.1 × 20.3 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S883
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, in plate, lower left of image: Paulus Potter In. et f. 1649
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Stamp, verso: Scripps 1882 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)
Provenance
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Paul Potter, Cowherd, 1649, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S883.
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