Eskimo Sled
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 18 7/8 in. (29.2 × 47.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1965
Accession Number
65.594.10
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Art Historical Context
Created in 1828, *Eskimoled* is a lithograph that captures a lively scene of women guiding a dog-drawn sled across a snowy landscape. The medium, relatively new at the time, artists to produce affordable, detailed prints that reached wide audiences beyond elite collectors. Léon Cogniet, working with printer Delpech, used this technique to bring distant or imagined subjects into European homes. The image reflects the early nineteenth-century fascination with exploration and distant cultures, as Arctic voyages captured public imagination. Through its focus on women and dogs in motion, the print offers a glimpse of everyday activity rendered with the expressive line work typical of lithography. Now part of the Metropolitan Museum’s Drawings and Prints collection, it stands as a fine example of how printmaking expanded the reach of visual storytelling in the 1820s.
About the Artist
Léon Cogniet|Delpech (French|French) · 1794 | –1880 |
French, Paris 1794–1880 Paris|