Pieter Mulier (1637–1701), Two Recumbent Goats and a Third Standing , 17th century, Red chalk, Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910 , III, 219a
Studies Of Farm Animals
The twentieth-century American artist Alexander Calder wrote, "the study of any domestic animal helps in drawing the rarer and wilder ones" Mulier, a Dutch artist who spent much of his life in Italy, has mastered the shaggy coat and penetrating stare of the goat.