New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to ChromeAdd to Firefox

Get Pro
Pencil sketch of a woman in a hooded cloak leading sheep across a flat field under a dramatic evening sky.

Download free

Bringing the sheep home in the evening

Save

Michael Ancher

Free download

2,309 × 1,709 px · JPG

This file is 2,309 pixels on the long side, with no account and no watermark. The page also names the museum that holds the work and gives its medium.

Download
PaletteShow the 3 main colors of this work

Select a color to copy its hex code

All 3 colors in one file, ready to load as swatches in Adobe, Procreate, GIMP or Krita, or as CSS variables.

Palette file

Credit this image

Bringing the sheep home in the evening, Michael Ancher (1902), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

Why is this public domain? Wikimedia Commons lists this work as public domain.

About this work

A graphite drawing shows a woman in a long hooded cloak and shawl leading a flock of sheep across an open, flat landscape under a heavy, cloud-filled sky. The loose, hatched strokes suggest wind and fading evening light. The work is by Michael Ancher, dated 1902, and is titled Bringing the sheep home in the evening.

File page on Wikimedia Commons

Date
1902
Medium
Print
Museum
Wikimedia Commons
License
Public domain