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Musicians Traveling through a Forest

Balthasar Anton Dunker · c. 1780

Balthasar Anton Dunker: German, 1746 - 1807

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Musicians Traveling through a Forest

c. 1780

pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk
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overall: 41 x 32.5 cm (16 1/8 x 12 13/16 in.)
Collection no.
2008.21.1
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Balthasar Anton Dunker. Musicians Traveling through a Forest. Balthasar Anton Dunker; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balthasar_Anton_Dunker,_Musicians_Traveling_through_a_Forest,_c._1780,_NGA_140072.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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Musicians Traveling through a Forest — Balthasar Anton Dunker. c. 1780.

Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 41 x 32.5 cm (16 1/8 x 12 13/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2008.21.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.

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.

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Balthasar Anton Dunker. Musicians Traveling through a Forest. Balthasar Anton Dunker; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balthasar_Anton_Dunker,_Musicians_Traveling_through_a_Forest,_c._1780,_NGA_140072.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.