Art, literature & history
Der Bärenzwinger im zoologischen Garten (The Bear Pit in the Zoological Gardens)
1851
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithograph on Chine appliqué on wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 24.8 × 19.6 cm (9 3/4 × 7 11/16 in.) sheet: 44.3 × 35.9 cm (17 7/16 × 14 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.6143
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Adolph Menzel. Der Bärenzwinger im zoologischen Garten (The Bear Pit in the Zoological Gardens). Adolph Menzel; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Rosenwald Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Der Bärenzwinger im zoologischen Garten (The Bear Pit in the Zoological Gardens) — Adolph Menzel. 1851.
Medium: lithograph on Chine appliqué on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 24.8 × 19.6 cm (9 3/4 × 7 11/16 in.) sheet: 44.3 × 35.9 cm (17 7/16 × 14 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.6143. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.