Who created "Bird Nesting"?

Bird Nesting was created by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze in 1837.

Is "Bird Nesting" in the public domain?

Yes, Bird Nesting is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Bird Nesting

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

1837

Medium

Painting

Classification

Painting

Department

Smithsonian Collection

Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Credit

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase in memory of Joshua C. Taylor through the Director's Discretionary Fund

Accession Number

1981.51

Tags

birdchildtreenestclimbing

About this artwork

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze spent his early career as an itinerant portraitist in Maryland and Virginia. He painted this scene of a young boy while he was experimenting with portraiture, and the boyâs pose allowed the artist to show various angles of the body. Images of children at play were popular in the 1830s, when childhood seemed to be an increasingly fleeting time of life. Three years before Leutze painted this scene, the French writer Alexis de Tocqueville announced that âin America there...

About the Artist

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

American, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1816–1868 Washington, D.C.

Bird Nesting

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