Deer in a Landscape
Medium
Watercolor and red chalk on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
7 7/16 x 11 1/4 in. (18.9 x 28.6 cm)
Classification
Watercolor
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
John Osgood and Elizabeth Amis Cameron Blanchard Memorial Fund, 1993
Accession Number
1993.526
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Art Historical Context
Karl Bodmer's *Deer in a Landscape* the serene beauty of the American wilderness, likely inspired by his travels along the Missouri River in the early 1830s. A Swiss artist who accompanied Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied on an expedition to document Native American cultures and the untamed West, Bodmer produced meticulous studies that preserved a vanishing frontier. This intimate work, housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing, reflects the Romantic fascination with nature's purity before rapid settlement transformed the continent. Rendered in watercolor and red chalk on off-...
About the Artist
Karl Bodmer · 1809–1893
Johann Carl Bodmer was born on February 11, 1809, in Zürich, Switzerland, and received his training as a painter and engraver under his uncle Johann Jakob Meier, who had himself studied under the prominent engraver Heinrich Füssli. By the late 1820s Bodmer had relocated to Koblenz, Germany, where his work came to the attention of Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied, a German naturalist-explorer plan...