Ostriches in the Desert

1872

Dating: Exact year
Held at: National Gallery of Art
Medium: etching and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions: plate: 11.6 × 15.9 cm (4 9/16 × 6 1/4 in.) sheet: 24 × 30.6 cm (9 7/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
Collection no.: 2014.55.1
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

François-Nicolas Auguste Feyen-Perrin. Ostriches in the Desert. François-Nicolas Auguste Feyen-Perrin; 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:Fran%C3%A7ois-Nicolas_Auguste_Feyen-Perrin,_Ostriches_in_the_Desert,_1872,_NGA_164365.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

About this artwork

Ostriches in the Desert — François-Nicolas Auguste Feyen-Perrin. 1872.

Medium: etching and drypoint on laid paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 11.6 × 15.9 cm (4 9/16 × 6 1/4 in.) sheet: 24 × 30.6 cm (9 7/16 × 12 1/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2014.55.1. 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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