# Cows and Sheep at a Stream

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## Artwork

- Artist: [DUJARDIN, Karel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dujardin-karel-r131a152b1bd610>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 52 x 43 cm

## Commentary

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.

## Related artworks

- [A Party of Charlatans in an Italian Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dujardin-karel-r131a152b1bd610/a-party-of-charlatans-in-an-italian-landscape-rd299efd440cd0f>)
- [Allegory](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dujardin-karel-r131a152b1bd610/allegory-r5f654de814da8d>)
- [Calvary](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dujardin-karel-r131a152b1bd610/calvary-r0c6666a387ec8a>)
- [Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dujardin-karel-r131a152b1bd610/hagar-and-ishmael-in-the-wilderness-rb35db297041934>)
- [Horseman Holding a Roemer](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dujardin-karel-r131a152b1bd610/horseman-holding-a-roemer-r6a0400273d8540>)
- [Italian Comedians](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dujardin-karel-r131a152b1bd610/italian-comedians-r189164b02ae73c>)
- [Italian Landscape with a Young Shepherd](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dujardin-karel-r131a152b1bd610/italian-landscape-with-a-young-shepherd-rb4466a3d02f3f3>)
- [Italian Landscape with Elegant Riders and Fishermen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dujardin-karel-r131a152b1bd610/italian-landscape-with-elegant-riders-and-fishermen-r8f842b7046a0a0>)
- [Italian Landscape with Herdsman and a Piebald Horse](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dujardin-karel-r131a152b1bd610/italian-landscape-with-herdsman-and-a-piebald-horse-r7cbb269caa35c1>)
- [Italianate Landscape with Travellers on Horseback](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dujardin-karel-r131a152b1bd610/italianate-landscape-with-travellers-on-horseback-r2e0608b62b9661>)
- [Landscape in the Roman Campagna](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dujardin-karel-r131a152b1bd610/landscape-in-the-roman-campagna-rd5f79e3c25761d>)
- [Landscape with Cattle](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dujardin-karel-r131a152b1bd610/landscape-with-cattle-rd2bfa163c04fe9>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)