Study for "Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler" (recto); Study for "Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler" (verso)
Medium
a) graphite and pen and brown ink on laid paper b) graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 21 × 31.3 cm (8 1/4 × 12 5/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Helena E.M. Gunnarsson Fund
Accession Number
2023.29.1.a-b
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Sir Edwin Landseer
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA was born on 7 March 1802 in London, England, the son of the engraver John Landseer A.R.A. and Jane Potts. A recognized prodigy, he studied under his father and the history painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, who urged him to perform animal dissections to master musculature and skeletal structure. He trained at the Royal Academy Schools and first exhibited there in 1815 at a...