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Dimensions: measurements note 20.6 by 24.8 cm.

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Provenance: Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 28 November 1951, lot 35, to Welker;
With V. Bloch, The Hague/Paris, 1954;
Sidney van den Berg, Wassenaar;
His sale, London, Christie's, 30 March 1979, lot 115;
Anonymous sale, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 9 November 1989, lot 644.

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Exhibited:

Leiden, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Oude Meesters, August 1965.

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Literature: J.M. Kilian, The paintings of Karel Du Jardin 1626-1678, Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam 2005, p. 228, cat. no. B5, reproduced p. 406, plate 133.

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Notes: OTHER PROPERTIES
In her extensive monograph on the artist, Jennifer M. Kilian suggests a date for the present work to around 1655.υ1 In the 1650s and early '60s, Karel Dujardin painted a large number of works devoted to cattle and strongly dependant on Paulus Potter (1625-1654). This painting of a serene animal scene is stylistically related to a number of works, such as to a Horse and Two Cows in a Hilly Landscape, on view in the Picture Gallery of Prince Willem V, The Hague (Instituut Collectie Nederland, Rijswijk/Amsterdam, inv. no. NK 2933).υ2 1. See Kilian under Literature, p. 228.
2. op. cit., p. 183, cat. no. 80, reproduced p. 362, plate 64.