"I Am Holding a Wolf by the Ears" (verso)

French early 16th Century, c. 1512/1515

This is a drawing of a human figure grappling with a canine creature. The drawing depicts a nude figure, with flowing hair, engaged in a struggle with an upright, wolf-like animal on a small piece of ground… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: French early 16th Century ¹
Date: c. 1512/1515 ¹
Medium: pen and brown and black ink, heightened with gold on laid paper ¹
Original: 2,000 × 1,532 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

Object record, National Gallery of Art

Historical context appears here only once it has verified sources. An empty record is better than a wrong one.

Computed from the image

warmlow contrastlight toneslandscape

Measured from pixels, not historical readings.

Close in palette, light and contrast · computed

Fränzi and Marcella in the Studio, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

This is a drawing of a horse and a person in motion. The drawing shows the horse with a flowing mane and a slightly restless posture, along with a tilted head and bent legs indicating movement or agitation.

In contrast

Similar light, opposite temperature · computed

Quebec. Break neck steps at the foot of which was found the tomb of Champlain., Unknown

Related

In contrast