Art, literature & history
The Cowherd and the Bull
1659
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching in black on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 11.3 × 13.4 cm (4 1/2 × 5 5/16 in.); Sheet: 12.9 × 15.1 cm (5 1/8 × 6 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1926.1892
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Adriaen van de Velde. The Cowherd and the Bull, 1659. Inventory 1926.1892. Adriaen van de Velde; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/32725. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
The Cowherd and the Bull — Adriaen van de Velde. 1659.
Medium: Etching in black on ivory wove paper. Dimensions: Plate: 11.3 × 13.4 cm (4 1/2 × 5 5/16 in.); Sheet: 12.9 × 15.1 cm (5 1/8 × 6 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
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.