# Horsemen near a Barn [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POTTER, Paulus]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Black and white chalk on buff-coloured paper, 170 x 130 mm ## Commentary This subject is familiar from the works of other Dutch artists active in the 1640s, particularly Pieter van Laer. But Potter's drawing stands apart in its quality of light: it is the intense, picturesque daylight of the late afternoon, an effect achieved mostly by heightening in white chalk. This sheet was intended as a finished work of art made for independent sale. ## Related artworks - [A Husbandman with His Herd \(detail\)]() - [A Husbandman with His Herd]() - [Cattle and Sheep in a Stormy Landscape]() - [Cows in a Meadow by a Farm]() - [Cows in a Meadow]() - [Cows Reflected in the Water]() - [Deer in the Wood]() - [Diederik Tulp]() - [Driving the Cattle to Pasture in the Morning]() - [Figures with Horses by a Stable \(detail\)]() - [Figures with Horses by a Stable]() - [Four Bulls \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()