1804
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Sheep Heads is a 1804 by Wouterus Verschuur, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows three sheep heads in quick, rough lines. The top two face left, their ears and mouths drawn fast and loose. The bottom sheep yells with its mouth wide open, looking straight at you. The paper is light, almost like the artist scribbled fast without much smoothing. The sketch feels alive—like the sheep are mid-sound or mid-movement. The artist didn’t focus on perfect details; instead, the lines capture their shapes and energy. Next, check out Realism to see how artists like this one showed everyday life without idealizing it.
Wouterus Verschuur (11 June 1812 – 4 July 1874) was a Dutch painter of animal subjects – mainly horses – and of landscapes. He is one of the later representatives of Romanticism in Dutch art.
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