About this artwork
One of Reinhart’s rare departures from a lifelong focus on landscapes, this realistic pair of etchings (2013.439–440) depicts two views of a single mule standing in the Italian countryside. The mule’s dual positioning possibly alludes to Renaissance-era studies of the female nude. Thus the mule becomes not just a prop in a landscape, but the artwork’s protagonist, a carefully studied figure atop a familiarly bucolic ground.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Johann Christian Reinhart
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Title
- Feeding Mule - Front, from Die Zweite Thierfolge
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Place
- Germany (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1800
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Medium
- Etching in black on ivory laid paper
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Dimensions
- Plate: 14.6 × 10.8 cm (5 3/4 × 4 5/16 in.); Sheet: 17.4 × 13.2 cm (6 7/8 × 5 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 2013.439
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/129572/manifest.json