Young Woman with Six Goats
Medium
Etching; third state
Dimensions
plate: 6 1/8 x 7 5/8 in. sheet: 9 3/8 x 12 1/2 in.
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. B. Neumann, 1960
Accession Number
60.681.42
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the serene etching *Young Woman with Six Go*, created by German printmaker Johann Christoph Er in 1815, we encounter a charming pastoral vignette. A young woman tends to her lively herd amid a lush landscape, capturing the quiet harmony of rural life. Rendered in the third state of this etching—a refined impression after the artist reworked the plate—the image measures a modest plate size of 6 1/8 x 7 5/8 inches, inviting intimate contemplation. Now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it was generously gifted by J.B. Neumann in 1960. Erhard (1795–1842...
About the Artist
Johann Christoph Erhard · 1795–1822
Johann Christoph Erhard (1795–1822) was a German painter and etcher of the Romantic era whose sensitive landscape studies and skillful prints earned him a growing reputation before his tragically early death at twenty-six. Born in Nuremberg, he studied at the Nuremberg Academy and later in Munich, where he was influenced by the Romantic landscape tradition and the revival of interest in the art of...