Canards
Karl Bodmer
1861/1866
Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
image: 18 x 27.2 cm (7 1/16 x 10 11/16 in.) sheet: 31.5 x 45 cm (12 3/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Martin Atlas
Accession Number
2004.107.1
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...