Art, literature & history
Encounter by the Garden Fence
1796
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- red chalk; laid down overall on Honig laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 20.5 x 18 cm (8 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1998.80.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Balthasar Anton Dunker. Encounter by the Garden Fence. 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,_Encounter_by_the_Garden_Fence,_1796,_NGA_107211.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Encounter by the Garden Fence — Balthasar Anton Dunker. 1796.
Medium: red chalk; laid down overall on Honig laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 20.5 x 18 cm (8 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1998.80.1. Gift of John Morton Morris.
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.