Rugged Moonlit Landscape with a Woman Seated by Gnarled Tree Roots, and an Owl

Provenance

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Artist: Ludwig Emil Grimm (German, Hanau 1790–1863 Kassel)
Date: 1833 (?)
Medium: Pen and brush and brown ink over black chalk with faint traces of white chalk, on blue paper
Dimensions: sheet: 14 x 19 13/16 in. (35.5 x 50.4 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, 2005
Accession no.: 2005.248

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Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00022283
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Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00022944

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.