White-tailed Deer

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

White-tailed Deer

Date

November 12, 1832

Dimensions

10 1/2 × 14 13/16 in. (26.7 × 37.6 cm)

Medium

Wash and graphite on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.343

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

Throughout November, Bodmer made frequent excursions into the wilderness near New Harmony to hunt and sketch. On days when it was raining or too cold to sketch, he worked indoors producing finished versions of his earlier studies. His drawing of a deer with the inscription "New Harmony, Ind. Nov. 1832" corresponds to an entry in Maximilian's journal for November 12 which relates that "Mr. Bodmer made sketches of the deer we received yesterday. I took its measurements." He adds that "the skinning and dissecting of our deer gave an all day's work to Dreidoppel."

References in Journal

November 12, 1832

Labels:

study , zoological study

Approximate Depicted Location:

New Harmony, Indiana