Skip to main contentDescriptionBearded vulture swoops in (top center) at an Ibex, who is on the cliff face--right. The ibex has wounds in his side from the vulture trying to knock the ibex off the cliff. A second vulture is visible in the back (lower left).
Bearded Vultures Attacking an Alpine Ibex
Artist/Maker
Joseph Wolf
Germany, 1820 - 1899
Date1861
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions90 1/2 × 67 in. (229.9 × 170.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of the 2013 Collectors Circle, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Conservation and Reframing Sponsored by the 2017 Collectors Circle
Frame a Partial Gift of Eli Wilner & Company
Object numberM2013.036
ClassificationsPainting
SignedSigned
InscribedSigned and dated l.r.: J. Wolf 1861
On View
On viewAuguste Andre Lancon
Sirio Tofanari
Robert F. Kuhn