DUJARDIN, Karel
(b. 1622, Amsterdam, d. 1678, Venezia)

Cows and Sheep at a Stream

1655-56
Oil on canvas, 52 x 43 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Like Paulus Potter, Karel Dujardin succeeded in rendering animals in a masterly way. In this painting he depicted sheep and a lamb, two cows and a donkey in a Dutch meadow, surrounded by a mountainous Italianate landscape.

This painting, now in the Louvre, was bought by the French king, Louis XVI.