Art, literature & history
Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann
Two men sheep shearing
ca. 1842
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Plate: 4 3/4 × 4 1/16 in. (12 × 10.3 cm) Sheet: 9 3/16 × 5 7/8 in. (23.3 × 14.9 cm)
- Collection no.
- 49.21.156
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann. Two men sheep shearing. Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Two men sheep shearing — Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann. ca. 1842.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate: 4 3/4 × 4 1/16 in. (12 × 10.3 cm) Sheet: 9 3/16 × 5 7/8 in. (23.3 × 14.9 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.