# Cows in a Meadow [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POTTER, Paulus]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary The bulk of Potter's work is devoted to horses and to scenes of cows, goats, sheep, and pigs, which show an extraordinary sensitivity to the various ways in which farmyard animals behave at different times of the day as well as to the different quality of light in the morning or at dusk in landscapes that almost invariably make country life appear idyllic. Notable too are are his portraits of dogs. ## 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 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 \(detail\)]() - [Four Bulls]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()