# Meadow with Cows and Herdsmen [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CUYP, Aelbert]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on oak, 49 x 74 cm ## Commentary In this poetic landscape, Cuyp created a peaceful idyll, observing both light and aerial perspectives. Sky, air and ground are bathed in gentle sunlight. The cows are resting in the shade right at the front, while two herdsmen with their dog have sat down by a coppiced oak. Under the pale, high, cloudy sky, the picture space opens out to the low horizon and the sea. The horizon line is interrupted by the architecture of St. Mary's Church in Utrecht. ## Related artworks - [A Road near a River]() - [Children and a Cow]() - [Domestic Fowl]() - [Dordrecht Harbour by Moonlight]() - [Evening Landscape with Horsemen and Shepherds]() - [Grey Horse in a Landscape]() - [Herdsman with Cows by a River]() - [Herdsmen with Cows]() - [Landscape near Rhenen]() - [Landscape]() - [Landscape with a Hunt]() - [Landscape with a Timber Yard near Dordrecht]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()