Herd of Sheep Under Trees

1891

Max Liebermann

Artist, German, 1847 - 1935

Printed with energetic black lines and hatching against cream white paper, dozens of sheep graze in the deep shadows cast by a grove of trees in this horizontal landscape etching. The horizon runs lengthwise across the center of the sheet, and the sheep graze between two neat rows of trees that recede into the distance. The ground gently rises on either side of the sheep, and the trees lean in toward the center. A dark form near the middle of the flock could be a shepherd or thick tree stump. The print is inscribed in graphite in the lower margin to the right, “MLiebermann.”

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and soft-ground etching on japan paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Donner

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.7 x 23.9 cm (7 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 39.3 x 59.2 cm (15 1/2 x 23 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1992.1.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Donner, Silver Spring, MD; gift to NGA, 1992.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2006

  • "Max Liebermann: Works on Paper", Goethe-Institut Washington, 2006, no. 1.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: MLiebermann; by later hands, lower center verso in graphite: Sch. 23 II b; lower left verso in graphite: Zn 6933 / (DZZ); lower right verso in graphite: 33

Wikidata ID

Q75118121


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