Man and a Small Boy in a Wood, Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the elder

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Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the elder, Man and a Small Boy in a Wood
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the elder, Man and a Small Boy in a Wood
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the elder
Man and a Small Boy in a Wood
1789
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the elder
1759–1835
Man and a Small Boy in a Wood, 1789
Where object was made: Kingdom of Prussia (present-day Germany) or Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau (present-day Germany)
Material/technique: etching
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 255 x 323 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 268 x 332 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 10 1/16 x 12 11/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 10 9/16 x 13 1/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 x 20 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Gift of Tom Rassieur in honor of Steve Goddard
Accession number: 1996.0040
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture," Mar-2009, Steve Goddard Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the elder was a remarkably prolific landscape etcher. He had a proclivity for romantic and mythological scenes set in Germany’s forests, often featuring diminutive figures that seem lost amidst ancient Oak trees, enormous rotting stumps, and eruptions of luxuriant ground foliage. The foreground trees in this print are evidently Willows, while the old man and young boy wander into the background Oaks.