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Four sheep, one sheep stands among three others lying on the ground next to a shed with thatched roof and open door
1658
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 4 7/8 x 6 1/8 in. (12.4 x 15.5 cm) sheet: 5 1/16 x 6 3/8 in. (12.9 x 16.2 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2012.136.685
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Karel Dujardin. Four sheep, one sheep stands among three others lying on the ground next to a shed with thatched roof and open door. Karel Dujardin; 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
Four sheep, one sheep stands among three others lying on the ground next to a shed with thatched roof and open door — Karel Dujardin. 1658.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: plate: 4 7/8 x 6 1/8 in. (12.4 x 15.5 cm) sheet: 5 1/16 x 6 3/8 in. (12.9 x 16.2 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.