Art, literature & history
The Large Cow Lying Down (Grosse Liegende Kuh)
1929
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- woodcut in black on blotting paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 53.5 x 40.6 cm (21 1/16 x 16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1991.116.69
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The Large Cow Lying Down (Grosse Liegende Kuh). Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; 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:Ernst_Ludwig_Kirchner,_The_Large_Cow_Lying_Down_(Grosse_Liegende_Kuh),_1929,_NGA_73074.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Large Cow Lying Down (Grosse Liegende Kuh) — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. 1929.
Medium: woodcut in black on blotting paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 53.5 x 40.6 cm (21 1/16 x 16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1991.116.69. Gift of Mrs. Robert A. Hauslohner.
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.