Un Abri (A Shelter)
Karl Bodmer
1858
Medium
lithograph in black on chine collé
Dimensions
sheet: 25.1 x 20 cm (9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.) support: 43.5 x 29.9 cm (17 1/8 x 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
René Huyghe Collection
Accession Number
1994.42.1
About the Artist
Karl Bodmer · 1809–1893
Johann Carl Bodmer was born on February 11, 1809, in Zürich, Switzerland, and received his training as a painter and engraver under his uncle Johann Jakob Meier, who had himself studied under the prominent engraver Heinrich Füssli. By the late 1820s Bodmer had relocated to Koblenz, Germany, where his work came to the attention of Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied, a German naturalist-explorer plan...