Art, literature & history
A Meadow with a Shepherd and Goats at the Edge of a Forest
1861
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- brush and brown ink over black chalk on two joined sheets of wove sketchbook paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 20.1 x 27.1 cm (7 15/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2011.135.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Carl Wagner. A Meadow with a Shepherd and Goats at the Edge of a Forest. Carl Wagner; 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:Carl_Wagner,_A_Meadow_with_a_Shepherd_and_Goats_at_the_Edge_of_a_Forest,_1861,_NGA_155693.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Meadow with a Shepherd and Goats at the Edge of a Forest — Carl Wagner. 1861.
Medium: brush and brown ink over black chalk on two joined sheets of wove sketchbook paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 20.1 x 27.1 cm (7 15/16 x 10 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2011.135.2. Gift of C.G. Boerner.
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.