Art, literature & history
Herd of Sheep Near the Water
1621
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 8.6 x 12.8 cm (3 3/8 x 5 1/16 in.) sheet: 9.4 x 13.6 cm (3 11/16 x 5 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1949.14.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Willem Buytewech. Herd of Sheep Near the Water. Willem Buytewech; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Rosenwald Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Herd of Sheep Near the Water — Willem Buytewech. 1621.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 8.6 x 12.8 cm (3 3/8 x 5 1/16 in.) sheet: 9.4 x 13.6 cm (3 11/16 x 5 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1949.14.1. Rosenwald Collection.
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.