Art, literature & history
Two Recumbent Sheep
1670
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 2 15/16 x 3 7/8 in. (7.4 x 9.9 cm) sheet: 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (8.2 x 10.8 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2012.136.664
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Adriaen van de Velde. Two Recumbent Sheep. Adriaen van de Velde; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Two Recumbent Sheep — Adriaen van de Velde. 1670.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: plate: 2 15/16 x 3 7/8 in. (7.4 x 9.9 cm) sheet: 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (8.2 x 10.8 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.