Sheep Ditch (Der Schafgraben)
Adolph Menzel
1843
Medium
etching with drypoint on Japan paper
Dimensions
plate: 16.83 × 23.18 cm (6 5/8 × 9 1/8 in.) sheet: 29.53 × 36.83 cm (11 5/8 × 14 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection
Accession Number
2015.19.3540
About the Artist
Adolph Menzel
Adolph Menzel (1815–1905) was a German painter, draftsman, and printmaker who became the most celebrated German artist of the nineteenth century and one of the most technically accomplished realists in European art. Born Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), he moved to Berlin as a teenager and was largely self-taught, taking over his father's lithographic business ...