Feeding Mule - Front, from Die Zweite Thierfolge
- Medium
- Etching in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 14.6 × 10.8 cm (5 3/4 × 4 5/16 in.); Sheet: 17.4 × 13.2 cm (6 7/8 × 5 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
One of Reinhart’s rare departures from a lifelong focus on landscapes, this realistic pair of etchings (2013.439–440) depicts two views of a single mule standing in the Italian countryside. The mule’s dual positioning possibly alludes to Renaissance-era studies of the female nude. Thus the mule becomes not just a prop in a landscape, but the artwork’s protagonist, a carefully studied figure atop a familiarly bucolic ground.
