Cows

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Drawings and Prints

362 Public domain

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

80 Public domain

American Decorative Arts

50 Public domain

European Paintings

40 Public domain

23 Public domain

20 Public domain

Ancient West Asian Art

16 Public domain

8 Public domain

Greek and Roman Art

8 Public domain

The Robert Lehman Collection

5 Public domain

5 Public domain

The Costume Institute

3 Public domain

By type

278 Public domain

80 Public domain

54 Public domain

Ceramics-Porcelain

14 Public domain

Textiles-Embroidered

12 Public domain

Textiles-Printed

11 Public domain

Ceramics-Pottery

10 Public domain

Enamels-Painted

9 Public domain

7 Public domain

6 Public domain

Stone-Stamp Seals

4 Public domain

4 Public domain

Works

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Bartolo di Fredi

Monteith with the Gibbs and Nelthorpe coats of arms

Ceremonial cloth

late 18th century

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet

Seal amulet in the form of a reclining cow

ca. 3300–2900 BCE

Seal amulet in the form of a reclining cow

ca. 3300–2900 BCE

Seal amulet in the form of a reclining cow

ca. 3300–2900 BCE

Seal amulet in the form of a reclining cow

ca. 3300–2900 BCE

Two-headed cow figure

3rd–1st millennium BCE

ca. 3000 BCE (?)

ca. 2900–2350 BCE

ca. 2700–2600 BCE

ca. 2700–2600 BCE

ca. 2700–2600 BCE

ca. 2700–2600 BCE

Conical beaker with relief decoration of bovines and birds of prey

ca. 2600–2350 BCE

Design amulet, Cow and Calf on the Back, Device showing Antithetical Falcons Flanking an Ankh Sign over a Crouching Lion

ca. 2150–2100 B.C.

Men Roping a Bull and Driving Cattle, Tomb of Djari

Unknown Copyist

ca. 2050–2000 B.C.

Laden Donkeys and Men Plowing, Tomb of Djari

Unknown Copyist

ca. 2050–2000 B.C.

Model of a Cow and Her Calf

ca. 2030–1850 B.C.

Model Cattle stable from the tomb of Meketre

ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Relief block depicting plucking and roasting fowl and herds crossing water

ca. 1962–1952 B.C.

ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Votive Stela with Three Hathor Cows

ca. 1473–1458 BCE

ca. 1473–1458 BCE

ca. 1473–1458 BCE

ca. 1473–1458 BCE

ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Banded agate cushion-shaped seal

ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Blue-Painted Jar Fragment from Malqata

ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Menat counterpoise with figures of Hathor as a woman and a cow

ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Deceased censing and libating to the deified Mentuhotep and Ahmose-Nefertari, with the Hathor cow emerging from the mountain; Tomb of Ameneminet

Charles K. Wilkinson

1924–1925; original ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Tile Decorated with a Cow's Head

ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Openwork furniture plaque with a cow suckling a calf

ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Openwork furniture plaque showing a cow suckling a calf

ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Furniture plaque carved in relief with a cow suckling a calf

ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Silver-gilt bowl

ca. 710–675 BCE

ca. 7th–6th century BCE

Resting bovine amulet

Cow's Head from a frontal representation of a cow emerging from a wall

Relief-decorated Lentoid Bottle ("New Year's Bottle"); Horus falcon in marshes on one side; cow goddess in marshes on the other

Limestone votive statuette of a cow and calf

6th–4th century BCE

Terracotta cup: cow's hoof

ca. 470–460 BCE

Terracotta rhyton (vase for libations or drinking)

Gold calf-head pendant

2nd half of the 5th century BCE

Bronze head of a calf

2nd half of 5th century BCE or later

Amulet of kneeling cow wearing disk and feathers

ca. 2nd century CE

Armenian Gospel with Silver Cover

manuscript: 13th century; cover: dated 1691

Saint Lucy and Her Mother at the Shrine of Saint Agatha; Saint Lucy Giving Alms; Saint Lucy before Paschasius; Saint Lucy Resisting Efforts to Move Her

Giovanni di Bartolommeo Cristiani

Chasuble Back with an Orphrey Cross

second half 15th century

The Adoration of the Magi

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Adoration of the Magi

Martin Schongauer

ca. 1470–1475

Martin Schongauer

Martin Schongauer

The Adoration of the Magi

Hieronymus Bosch

The Triumph of Caesar: the Elephants

Andrea Mantegna|Gian Marco Cavalli|Giulio Campagnola