Anguish (Schenck)
1878 oil painting by August Friedrich Schenck / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anguish (French: Angoisses or Angoisse) is an 1878 oil painting by August Friedrich Schenck. It depicts an anguished mother sheep standing over the dead body of her lamb, surrounded by a murder of crows.
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French: Angoisses | |
Artist | August Friedrich Schenck |
Year | c. 1878 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 151 cm × 251.2 cm (59 in × 98.9 in) |
Location | National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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Perhaps Schenck's most famous painting, it is held by National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne, Australia since 1880. The painting was an early acquisition by the gallery, just a few years after it was founded, and has been voted the most popular of the gallery's 75,000 works on two occasions, in 1906 and 2011.