Dutch Golden Age Pastoral Prints
May 2026
These are primarily 17th-century Dutch prints depicting rural pastoral scenes with livestock (cattle, sheep, goats, horses) and herders, created using etching and engraving techniques characteristic of the Dutch Golden Age.
40 objects · 5 institutions
A Cow and Three Sheep
Art Institute of Chicago
1670
A Witches' Sabbath
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1650
Adoration of the Shepherds
Art Institute of Chicago
1598/1600
Animalia: Ram and Goat
Cleveland Museum of Art
1635–83
Barns, Resting Herd and Dog in Centre Foreground, from Landscapes (Verscheyden aerdige Lanthuysen...)
Art Institute of Chicago
1620
Bull Grazing and Three Sheep
Art Institute of Chicago
1670
Cow
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Cow Drinking
Art Institute of Chicago
1680
Cow, Goat, Sheep Lying Down in Ruins
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Cowherds and Cattle, Donkeys and a Goat, in a rocky landscape
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
De schaapherder en zijn gezin
Rijksmuseum
1644
Dromedary and Camel
Art Institute of Chicago
1817
Grazing Horse, plate three from Series of Horses
Art Institute of Chicago
1651
Herd of Cattle at a Ford Near a Watermill
Art Institute of Chicago
1646
Herdsman with his Staff, in Rocky Landscape
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
Man holding a horse by the bridle
Cleveland Museum of Art
Milkmaid and Seated Herdsman on a Hillock
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
Noah letting the animals into the ark
Metropolitan Museum of Art
ca. 1630
Rider Behind a Wall
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
Shepherds with Cows and Sheep on Path in Mountains
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
Sleeping Herdsman and Woman at the Foot of a Tree
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
Sleeping Shepherds
Cleveland Museum of Art
1663
Stone Bas-Relief Representing a Shepherd Pouring Water into a Trough
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1600-05
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1590-1600
The Bull
Art Institute of Chicago
1650
The Herd, Crossing the Brook
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
The Shepherdess and the Sheep
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
The Singing Shepherdess
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
Three Horseman at the Sutler's Tent Towards the Left
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
Three Sheep: One Standing between Two Lying Down
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
Two Cows and One Sheep at a Ford
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
Two Horses by a Plough
Art Institute of Chicago
1657
Two Rams
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
Two Riders and Herdsman
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1565-1600
Two Sheep Lying Down
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
Two Sheep: One Standing, One Lying Down
Harvard Art Museums
17th century
Woman Milking a Cow, plate 3 from Four Landscapes
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1649-58
Young Bull
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1496, erroneously inscribed in another hand 1508
Young Cowherd Sitting on a Wall
Harvard Art Museums
17th century