Dog Asleep Beside a Pair of Boots

Sixt Thon

Associated Names
Sixt Thon

Artist, German, 1817 - 1901

The image shows a sleeping dog, an overturned boot, an upright boot, and a pestle and mortar set on a monochromatic background with shades of black and white. The dog is curled up on a piece of fabric, with the boots and the pestle and mortar nearby.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Nicolaas Teuwisse

  • Dimensions

    plate: 7.2 × 13.2 cm (2 13/16 × 5 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 8.2 × 14.3 cm (3 1/4 × 5 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.47.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Andresen 1878, no. 18, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1878

  • Andresen, Andreas. Die deutschen Maler-Radirer (peintres-graveurs) des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, nach ihren Leben und Werken. 5 vols. Leipzig: Alexander Danz, 1878: no. 18, i/ii

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: S Thon scolare d. T. Preller; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: And 18.I (v2)

Wikidata ID

Q77007130

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