Young Woman with Six Goats
Medium
Etching; third state
Dimensions
plate: 6 1/8 x 7 5/8 in. sheet: 6 11/16 x 8 1/8 in.
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.21.15
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Art Historical Context
Created in 1815, Johann Christoph Erhard’s etching *Young Woman with Six Goats* captures a tranquil pastoral moment. A young woman tends her small herd amid a gently rolling landscape, the scene rendered with delicate lines that emphasize both the figures and the natural setting. As a third-state impression, the print reveals Erhard’s careful revisions, showcasing the artist’s attention to balance and detail in this intimate genre subject. Etching was a favored medium in the early nineteenth century for its ability to convey texture and atmosphere with fine, expressive strokes. Here, Erhard u...
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...