Art, literature & history
Cow Lying Down near a Fence
1650
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Collection no.
- 1982.15.3
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Paulus Potter. Cow Lying Down near a Fence. Paulus Potter; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paulus_Potter,_Cow_Lying_Down_near_a_Fence,_1650,_NGA_61126.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Cow Lying Down near a Fence — Paulus Potter. 1650.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1982.15.3. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.