A Groundhog or Marmot with a Branch of Plums

Jacopo Ligozzi, 1605

This is a painting of a marmot-like animal with purple and red plums on a gray stone surface. The animal is seen from the side, facing the left, with one foot on a small rock. It has brown and gray fur with round,… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Jacopo Ligozzi ¹
Date: 1605 ¹
Medium: watercolor and ink with white gouache over traces of graphite on burnished laid paper ¹
Original: 11,582 × 9,054 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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A work made of linen and wool, slit tapestry weave.

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A work made of linen and silk, tapestry weave.

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