depicts: domestic sheep / instance of: painting

commissioned by: Cassiano dal Pozzo (1)

owned by: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (3) | Karoline Luise von Baden (2) | Charles Savage Homer, Jr. (2) | Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1) | William V (1) | Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1) | William IV, Prince of Orange (1) | William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1) | University of Oklahoma (1) | John G. Johnson (1) | Maximilian Speck von Sternburg (1) | Jan Gildemeester (1) | August de Ridder (1) | Harriet Loyd Lindsay (1) | Raoul Meyer (1) | Howard J. Sachs (1) | Peter Sachs (1) | Christoph Bernoulli (1)

movement: rococo (2) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (2) | academic art (2) | Venetian school (2) | Dutch Golden Age painting (2) | Realism (2) | Baroque (1) | Der Blaue Reiter (1) | realism (1) | Les Nabis (1) | High Renaissance (1) | Realism (1)

genre: landscape art (99) | religious art (32) | genre art (22) | animal painting (9) | portrait (7) | group portrait (5) | mythological painting (5) | still life (4) | pastoral (3) | nude (2) | self-portrait (2) | idyll (2) | allegory (2) | overdoor (1) | history painting (1) | fête champêtre (1) | architectural view (1)

based on: Old Testament (2) | Metamorphoses (2) | Greek mythology (1) | Gospel of John (1) | Nativity of Jesus (1) | Issé (1) | Parti af den romerske Campagne (1) | A Landscape with a Ruined Archway (1)

artist: Jacob van Ruisdael (16) | Aelbert Cuyp (16) | Adriaen van de Velde (13) | Paulus Potter (10) | Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (7) | Domenichino (4) | Anton Mauve (4) | François Boucher (3) | Cornelis Huysmans (3) | Jan Baptist Weenix (3) | Adam Pynacker (3) | Theodor Philipsen (3) | Jasper Francis Cropsey (3) | anonymous (3) | Vincent van Gogh (2) | Titian (2) | Camille Pissarro (2) | Jean-François Millet (2)

material used: oil paint (200) | canvas (115) | wood (12) | panel (10) | canvas (4) | watercolor paint (3) | poplar wood (2) | copper (1) | paper (1) | tempera (1) | gouache paint (1) | chestnut wood (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (37) | private collection (25) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (11) | Statens Museum for Kunst (8) | National Museum in Warsaw (6) | Rijksmuseum (6) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (5) | Mauritshuis (5) | Nivaagaard Museum (5) | Museum of Fine Arts (4) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (4) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (4) | Nationalmuseum (3) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (3) | The Wallace Collection (3) | Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes (3) | Ribe Kunstmuseum (3) | Musée d'Orsay (2)

location: private collection (12) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (11) | Statens Museum for Kunst (8) | Rijksmuseum (6) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (5) | Nivaagaard Museum (5) | in Painting's depot of the Musée du Louvre or in temporary movement (5) | Museum of Fine Arts (4) | Mauritshuis (4) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (4) | Room 716 (4) | National Museum in Warsaw (3) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (3) | Nationalmuseum (3) | museum's storage space (3) | The Wallace Collection (3) | Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes (3) | Ribe Kunstmuseum (3)

part of: Lamego Cathedral polyptych (1)

country of origin: United States of America (19) | France (3) | Brazil (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1771 (2) | Royal Academy of Arts (1) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (1) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | The One Show (1) | Salon of 1808 (1) | Dominique-Vivant Denon: l'oeil de Napoléon (1) | Salon of 1789 (1) | Salon of 1864 (1) | Salon of 1824 (1) | Europeana 280 (1) | None (1) | Salon of 1751 (1) | National Trust - Dutch Masters from British Country Houses (1)

main subject: Nativity of Jesus (2) | Burning bush (2) | Cleansing of the Temple (2) | Madonna and Child (2) | John the Baptist (1) | crucifixion of Jesus (1) | animal husbandry (1) | Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (1) | sacrifice (1) | Abel (1) | Sacra Conversazione (1) | Adoration of the Magi (1) | Holy Family (1) | Annunciation to the shepherds (1) | Binding of Isaac (1) | Circumcision of Jesus (1) | John the Baptist in the wilderness (1)

location of final assembly: United States of America (2) | France (1) | Nuenen (1) | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1) | River Dee (1) | 's-Graveland (1) | Tyrvää (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (1)