Genre
Cattle & Livestock
Cattle stand for the wealth of the land. The Dutch animal painters of the 1600s made the herd a subject, posing cows and oxen against low horizons with a dignity usually reserved for portraits, and the placid beast at pasture became a sign of a country at peace and at work.
Key artists
Works
Lake Lucerne
Wivenhoe Park, Essex
Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
The Valley of Wyoming
Washerwomen
Indian Summer
High Point: Shandaken Mountains
A Windmill on a Polder Waterway, Known as ‘In the Month of July’
Pastoral Landscape
Summer Afternoon
A Pastoral Scene
The Beeches
Landscape with a Peasant and His Flock
The Adoration of the Magi
River Scene
Calling the Cows Home
雪村周継筆 山水図|Landscape with Rocky Precipice
The Old Oaken Bucket which Hung in the Well
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Untitled
Untitled
Landscape—Scene from "Thanatopsis"
Mountain Torrent
The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard
The Flight into Egypt
Untitled
Untitled
From Shifting Shade
The Nativity
Wall painting from the west wall of Room L of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
The Adoration of the Shepherds
A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise
Young Ladies of the Village
The Adoration of the Magi
Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt
The Love Letter
View of Florence
Spanish Peaks, Southern Colorado, Late Afternoon
Children and a Cow
The Nativity
Bulls Fighting
The Adoration of the Shepherds with Saint Catherine of Alexandria
The Good Samaritan
Traveling Warriors Stopping at a Farm
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Garden
Untitled
The Nativity
Untitled
The Golden Age
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Untitled
Roundel with Annunciation to the Shepherds
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Meadow with Cows by the Water
Peaceable Kingdom
Landscape with the Flight into Egypt
Approaching Storm
Moses Striking the Rock
Untitled
Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Untitled
The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Young Baptist and His Parents
Bull's Head Tavern
Troops at Rest
Untitled
Shepherds and Sheep
Haystacks: Autumn
Cows Crossing a Ford
Delaware Water Gap
Piping Shepherds
Landscape with Goatherd
Sunrise
The Abduction of Europa
The Harrower
Adoration of the Magi from Seven Scenes from the Life of Christ
Thomas (1740–1825) and Martha Neate (1741–after 1795) with His Tutor, Thomas Needham
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
A Country Road
The Return to the Fold
The Three Ages of Man
Roundel with the Nativity
Bullfight in a Divided Ring
The Interrupted Sleep
Rest
The Flight into Egypt
Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna
Autumn Oaks
A Shepherd and a Rider on a Country Lane
Cows in a soggy meadow
Landscape at Sunset
View of the Gulf of Pozzuoli from Solfatara
Landscape with a Scene of the Conquest of America
Hackensack Meadows
Adoration of the Shepherds
Springtime
Untitled
The Route Nationale at Samer
Mary Sylvester
A River in a Meadow
The Goat Girl
Landscape
The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey
Landscape with Cows Watering in a Stream
The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey
Untitled
The Return of the Cattle
南宋/元 顏庚 鍾馗嫁妹圖 卷|The Demon Queller Zhong Kui Giving His Sister Away in Marriage
Evening at Medfield, Massachusetts
Scene at Napanoch
Shepherd's Idyll
The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey
The Dispatch of the Messenger
View near Sherburne, Chenango County, New York
Village Scene, Grasse
Entrance to the Grotto of Posillipo
The Sheepfold
Pasture Scene
Leete Farm, West Claremont, New Hampshire
Fur marked
Italian landscape with soldiers
Landscape
Große Landschaft mit Tieren
Laden Donkeys and Ploughing, Tomb of Djar
Untitled
De Winkel near Abcoude
The Roman Campagna
The Good Samaritan
An Eruption of Vesuvius
Waterfall at Mont-Dore
Infant Bacchanal
The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey
Sunset
Changing Pasture
Landscape with Erminia
On the Old Sod
The Artist Painting a Cow in a Meadow
清 佚名 群羊圖卷絹本設色|Landscape with goats
A Shepherdess and Her Flock
Going to Market
Saint Luke Painting the Virgin
Women Preparing Food, Tomb of Djari
Untitled
At Lake Garda
Market Woman at the Vegetable Stall
A Jutland Sheperd on the Moors
Hunter and Hounds being Judged
Saint Philip Baptizes the Eunuch
Cows in a Field
White Cow
Cow beside a Ditch
Valley of Amblève
Young Bull
Koeien
Saint John the Baptist Preaching
Untitled
The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey
The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey
The People's Census at Bethlehem
狩野内膳筆 沢庵宗彭賛 政黄牛・郁山主図|Zheng Huangniu and Yushanzhu
Twilight
Untitled
Young Herdsmen with Cows
Landscape with Cattle at Limousin
The Flood Gate
Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep
Untitled
The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey
Landscape with Cows
Roundel with Netting Quail
Roundel with Allegorical Figure
Shepherd with a Flock of Sheep
Scene outside a Dutch Farm
Gadekæret i Kajerød
Expulsion from earthly Paradise.
Boatmen Moored on the Shore of an Italian Lake
Southern rocky landscape with Mercury and Argus
Eruption of the Volcano Vesuvius, 1820
Execution of Hunter and Hounds
Adoration of the Magi Triptych
Arcadian Landscape with Shepherds and Animals
Cow
Landschap met herder en vee bij een boom
Untitled
南宋 佚名 騎驢圖 軸|Chan master riding a mule
Landscape with Cattle
朴堂祖淳筆 蘇軾騎驢図|Su Shi Riding a Donkey
The Hamlet of Optevoz
Cows being Watered at a Village Pond. Brofelde, Zealand
Untitled
Kystboerne drager vod i landingen
The Adoration of the Shepherds
元末明初 佚名牧羊圖團扇頁 絹本設色|Sheep and herd boy
The Milking Place at Meilgård
Landscape with Sheep
Environs of Fontainebleau: Woodland and Cattle
Oak Trees near a Road, Evening
明/清 佚名 趙孟頫(僞款) 西成歸樂圖 卷|Happy Return from the West
The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey
Frequently asked questions
What is Cattle & Livestock?
Cattle & Livestock is a motif in painting. Cattle stand for the wealth of the land.
How many Cattle & Livestock works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 498 public-domain Cattle & Livestock works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Cattle & Livestock artists?
Key Cattle & Livestock artists in the collection include Thomas Cole, Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet.