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)

ClassificationsPainting

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

Terms

Object numberM2013.036

DescriptionBearded 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).

Status

On view

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