Pursued Centaur, plate three from Intermezzos

Look first

Show me

Pursued Centaur, plate three from Intermezzos, 1881. Etching and aquatint on cream wove paper, laid down on off-white wove paper.

Etching and aquatint on cream wove paper, laid down on off-white wove paper · Image: 16.4 × 37.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago

What do you notice now?

Try a quick sketch

Take a minute to sketch on any paper. No upload needed.

What did you draw first? What did you leave out?

Museum title: Pursued Centaur, plate three from Intermezzos
Artist: Max Klinger German, 1857-1920
Date: 1881
Medium: Etching and aquatint on cream wove paper, laid down on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 16.4 × 37.7 cm (6 1/2 × 14 7/8 in.); Chine: 20.1 × 40.6 cm (7 15/16 × 16 in.); Plate: 20.8 × 41.1 cm (8 1/4 × 16 3/16 in.); Sheet: 44.8 × 62.3 cm (17 11/16 × 24 9/16 in.)
Credit line: Gift of Simon Lowinsky and Nikki Arai
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1857–1920

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.