Sheepshearing
Medium
Etching in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 15.2 × 21 cm (6 × 8 5/16 in.); Plate: 17.1 × 22.6 cm (6 3/4 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 17.9 × 23.4 cm (7 1/16 × 9 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
152953
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Johann Adam Klein was a painter and engraver from Nuremberg, Germany. He spent most of the period 1811–18 at the Art Academy in Vienna, where he designed and printed the etchings Dromedary and Camel (2013.382) and Sheepshearing (2013.384). Indeed, Klein specified below the image that he drew the camels from life in the famed Vienna zoo, the Menagerie Schönbrunn. No such declaration of accuracy or outdoor observation accompanies the more quotidian, but energetic, scene of sheep having their wool ...
About the Artist
Johann Adam Klein · 1792–1875
Swedish artist, resided in Copenhagen after 1758. Comment on works: genre; lithographer