Art, literature & history
A Shepherdess Speaking to Her Dog
1653
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 18.9 × 22 cm (7 1/2 × 8 11/16 in.); Sheet: 19.4 × 22.4 cm (7 11/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1924.589
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Karel Dujardin. A Shepherdess Speaking to Her Dog, 1653. Inventory 1924.589. Karel Dujardin; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/13012. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. Individual creator identity review: existing authority Q719666 explicitly links Chicago artist 34326. Local biography years remain 1622 / 1678; native numeric years 1617 / 1678 and object display 'Karel Dujardin\nDutch, c. 1622-1678' remain separate evidence. No biography field or creator link is changed. Independent NGA constituent 3983 corroborates the same creator; its date wording 'Dutch, 1626 - 1678' is retained. The exact object, accession, creation interval, native primary artist role and photo-specific CC0 grant are checked separately; catalogue fields and review status are preserved.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
A Shepherdess Speaking to Her Dog — Karel Dujardin. 1653.
Medium: Etching on cream laid paper. Dimensions: Image/plate: 18.9 × 22 cm (7 1/2 × 8 11/16 in.); Sheet: 19.4 × 22.4 cm (7 11/16 × 8 7/8 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
A trip to Italy in the 1640s inspired Karel Dujardin to create atmospheric Italianate landscapes that he successfully merged with figures and animals.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
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.