Sleeping Dog
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 15/16 x 3 5/8 in. (7.4 x 9.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.644
Tags
Art Historical Context
Nestled in the intimate scale of an etching measuring just under 3 by 4 inches, *Sleeping Dog* (1777) by Dutch artist Cornelis Ploos Amstel captures a moment of serene repose. Ploos van Amstel, prominent 18th-century printmaker and collector from Amsterdam, was renowned for meticulous reproductions of Old Master drawings and his own delicate studies of nature. This small print, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum Art's Department of Drawings and Prints, his skill in rendering everyday subjects with scientific precision. Etching, the medium here, allowed Ploos van Amstel to achieve fine line...
About the Artist
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel · 1726–1798
Dutch, 1726–1798