Cattle in art: paintings, drawings and prints

The creek, 1925.

The creek (museum title)

Arthur Streeton (Australian), oil on canvas

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia

Landscape with Hercules and Cacus, Nicolas Poussin

Landscape with Hercules and Cacus, 1660.

Paysage avec Hercule et Cacus (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Russia

View near Arundel, 1834–1835.

View near Arundel (museum title)

John Constable (British), graphite on wove paper

Yale Center for British Art, United States

A Grecian Harvest-Home, or Thanksgiving to the Rural Deities, Ceres, Bacchus, etc., James Barry

A Grecian Harvest-Home, or Thanksgiving to the Rural Deities, Ceres, Bacchus, etc., 1791.

A Grecian Harvest-Home, or Thanksgiving to the Rural… (museum title)

James Barry (Irish), etching, engraving

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Cycle of the Cattle Breeders, João Batista da Costa

Cycle of the Cattle Breeders, c. 1925.

Ciclo dos Criadores de Gado (museum title)

João Batista da Costa (Brazilian), oil on canvas

Museu Paulista collection (Fundo Museu Paulista), Brazil

Solva (Fishing Village in Pembrokeshire), Frances Hodgkins

Solva (Fishing Village in Pembrokeshire), 1936.

Solva (Fishing Village in Pembrokeshire) (museum title)

Frances Hodgkins (New Zealander), gouache on paper

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, United Kingdom

Crater of Mount Gambier, South Australia, Eugene von Guérard

Crater of Mount Gambier, South Australia, c. 1865.

Crater of Mt. Gambier, S A (museum title)

Eugene von Guérard (Australian), chalk lithograph with tint stones on paper

State Library Victoria, Australia

A Grecian Harvest Home (Designs for the Walls of the Great Room of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts), James Barry

A Grecian Harvest Home (Designs for the Walls of the Great Room of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts), after 1783.

A Grecian Harvest Home (Designs for the Walls of the Great… (museum title)

James Barry (Irish), engraving

Yale Center for British Art, United States

Landscape with Cattle

Landskap med boskap (museum title)

Anders Askevold (Norwegian), oil on canvas

Nationalmuseum, Sweden

La rentrée du troupeau, 1898.

La rentrée du troupeau (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, United Kingdom

Study of Cows, 1884.

Seks rødbrokete kuer (museum title)

Anders Askevold (Norwegian), oil on cardboard

National Museum of Norway

Ben Lomond, Epping Forest, Tasmania, Eugene von Guérard

Ben Lomond, Epping Forest, Tasmania, c. 1867.

Ben Lomond, Epping Forest, Tasmania (museum title)

Eugene von Guérard (Australian), color lithograph

State Library Victoria, Australia

High Mountain Landscape, Anders Askevold

High Mountain Landscape, 1864.

Høyfjellsbilde (museum title)

Anders Askevold (Norwegian), oil on canvas

Trondheim Art Museum, Norway

'Mount Fyans' homestead, 1869.

'Mount Fyans' homestead (museum title)

Louis Buvelot (Australian), oil on canvas

National Gallery of Australia

Terrinallum homestead, 1869.

Terrinallum homestead (museum title)

Louis Buvelot (Australian), oil on canvas

State Library Victoria, Australia

Orpheus instructing..in Theology (Designs for the Walls of the Great Room of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts), James Barry

Orpheus instructing..in Theology (Designs for the Walls of the Great Room of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts), after 1783.

Orpheus instructing..in Theology (Designs for the Walls of… (museum title)

James Barry (Irish), engraving

Yale Center for British Art, United States

View near Heidelberg, 1866.

View near Heidelberg (museum title)

Louis Buvelot (Australian), oil on canvas

National Gallery of Australia

Study of two Cows, seen from behind

Bakparten av to kuer, studie (museum title)

Anders Askevold (Norwegian), oil on cardboard, mounted on cardboard

National Museum of Norway

Cows Being Driven across the Moor, Michael Ancher

Cows Being Driven across the Moor, 1902.

Rytter-Sørens køer drives ved aften over heden (museum title)

Michael Ancher (Danish), oil on canvas

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Landscape on the Schinkel with Cows in the Foreground, Rik Wouters

Landscape on the Schinkel with Cows in the Foreground, 1915.

Landschap aan de Schinkel met koeien op de voorgrond (museum title)

Rik Wouters (Belgian), black chalk and watercolor on paper

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Apollo in Love with Daphne, Nicolas Poussin

Apollo in Love with Daphne, 1664.

Apollon amoureux de Daphné (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

Cattle on the Way Home, 1868.

Kreaturer på hjemvei (museum title)

Anders Askevold (Norwegian), oil on canvas

Trondheim Art Museum, Norway

Landscape [Waimea Plains, Nelson?], John Gully

Landscape [Waimea Plains, Nelson?], 1881.

Landscape [Waimea Plains, Nelson?] (museum title)

John Gully (New Zealander), watercolor

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand

Charcoal sketch of valley with livestock in A Wellington sketchbook c 1908-12, Petrus van der Velden

Charcoal sketch of valley with livestock in A Wellington sketchbook c 1908-12, c. 1908–1912.

Charcoal sketch of valley with livestock in A Wellington… (museum title)

Petrus van der Velden (New Zealander), charcoal on paper

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand

Ombre et Obscurité, 1848.

Ombre et Obscurité (museum title)

J. M. W. Turner (British), oil on canvas

Tate Britain, United Kingdom

Study of Calfheads, 1858.

Studie av kalvehoder (museum title)

Anders Askevold (Norwegian), oil on cardboard, mounted on cardboard

National Museum of Norway

The Rodeo, 1861.

El rodeo (museum title)

Prilidiano Pueyrredón (Argentinian), oil on canvas

National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Cows Crossing the Lys, 1899.

Vaches traversant la Lys (museum title)

Émile Claus (Belgian), oil on canvas

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Summer, 1893.

Zomer (museum title)

Émile Claus (Belgian), oil on canvas

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), Belgium

Job Reproved by His Friends, James Barry

Job Reproved by His Friends, 1777.

Job Reproved by His Friends (museum title)

James Barry (Irish), etching over traces of aquatint

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Barrow, 1912.

Kurhan (museum title)

Józef Chełmoński (Polish), oil on canvas

National Museum in Warsaw, Poland

Terrinallum House and Emu Creek from near the lower garden gate, Louis Buvelot

Terrinallum House and Emu Creek from near the lower garden gate, 1871.

Terrinallum House and Emu Creek from near the lower garden… (museum title)

Louis Buvelot (Australian), oil on canvas

National Gallery of Australia

Ben Lomond, Epping Forest, Tasmania, 1866–1868.

Ben Lomond, Epping Forest, Tasmania (museum title)

Eugene von Guérard (Australian), color lithograph

Art Gallery of South Australia

Orpheus Instructing a Savage People in Theology and the Arts of Social Life, James Barry

Orpheus Instructing a Savage People in Theology and the Arts of Social Life, 1791.

Orpheus Instructing a Savage People in Theology and the… (museum title)

James Barry (Irish), etching, engraving

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Christmas Night (The Blessing of the Oxen), Paul Gauguin

Christmas Night (The Blessing of the Oxen), 1900s.

Nuit de Noël, La bénédiction des bœufs (museum title)

Paul Gauguin (French), oil on canvas

Indianapolis Museum of Art, United States

Landscape, Nelson 1871, 1871.

Landscape, Nelson 1871 (museum title)

John Gully (New Zealander), watercolor

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand

Study of six hooves, 1855.

Studie av seks dyreklover (museum title)

Anders Askevold (Norwegian), oil on cardboard, mounted on cardboard

National Museum of Norway

Storm on the Hortobágy, Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka

Storm on the Hortobágy, 1903.

Vihar a nagy Hortobágyon (museum title)

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (Hungarian), oil on canvas

Hungarian National Gallery, Hungary

The Return of the Herd, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Return of the Herd, 1565.

The Return of the Herd (museum title)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Dutch), oil on panel

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Austria

Woman with a Calf, 1915.

Vrouw met een kalf (museum title)

Rik Wouters (Belgian), brush and black ink on paper

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Woodland Pasture, 1878.

Hage (museum title)

Anders Askevold (Norwegian), oil

Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden

Evening in Polesia, 1909.

Wieczór na Polesiu (museum title)

Józef Chełmoński (Polish), oil on canvas

National Museum in Warsaw, Poland

Two Cows Lying Down, 1861.

To liggende kuer (museum title)

Anders Askevold (Norwegian), oil on cardboard

National Museum of Norway

Landscape with Cows, Sheep and a Shepherdess, Modified Copy after Paulus Potter, Jean-Étienne Liotard

Landscape with Cows, Sheep and a Shepherdess, Modified Copy after Paulus Potter, 1761.

Landscape with Cows, Sheep and a Shepherdess, Modified Copy… (museum title)

Jean-Étienne Liotard (Swiss), pastel on parchment

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Summer at Saint-Eustache, Maurice Cullen

Summer at Saint-Eustache, c. 1906.

Été à Saint-Eustache (museum title)

Maurice Cullen (Canadian), oil on canvas

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada

Cowshed, 1856.

Fjøs (museum title)

Anders Askevold (Norwegian), oil on cardboard, mounted on cardboard

National Museum of Norway

Aberothock Abbey, 1848.

Aberothock Abbey (museum title)

David Roberts (British), watercolor on paper

Yale Center for British Art, United States

Landscape from Sandefjord, 1884.

Landscape from Sandefjord (museum title)

Hans Gude (Norwegian), gouache

Finnish National Gallery, Finland

Study of two Cows

To kuer (museum title)

Anders Askevold (Norwegian), oil on cardboard, mounted on cardboard

National Museum of Norway

View of Klein Zicker, 1882.

Fra Klein Zicker (museum title)

Hans Gude (Norwegian), pencil on paper

National Museum of Norway