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The image depicts a landscape with a sepia-toned palette. The viewpoint is from ground level, showing a wooded scene with a clearing or slope on the left and tree-filled horizon. The sky is cloudy with wispy brushstrokes. Trees dominate the right side with detailed and sketchy strokes. The scene has light filtering through foliage, and grassy patches with sloping terrain and shadowed areas. The color scheme consists of browns, blacks, and hints of gray, reminiscent of early photographic tones or aged ink drawings.
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The image depicts a landscape with a sepia-toned palette. The viewpoint is from ground level, showing a wooded scene with a clearing or slope on the left and tree-filled horizon. The sky is cloudy with wispy brushstrokes. Trees dominate the right side with detailed and sketchy strokes. The scene has light filtering through foliage, and grassy patches with sloping terrain and shadowed areas. The color scheme consists of browns, blacks, and hints of gray, reminiscent of early photographic tones or aged ink drawings.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Meadow with a Shepherd and Goats at the Edge of a Forest

Carl Wagner

Date
1861
Medium
brush and brown ink over black chalk on two joined sheets of wove sketchbook paper
Dimensions
sheet: 20.1 x 27.1 cm (7 15/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2011.135.2
Credit line
Gift of C.G. Boerner
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Landscape
  • Forest
  • animal
  • Man
  • Field
Provenance

(C. G. Boerner, New York); gift to NGA, 2011.

Inscription

lower left in black chalk: [not deciphered] 19 Aug 61; lower left verso in graphite: C. Wagner f. 1861

NGA object ID 155693. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.