1909
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Precipice is a 1909 ink by Anders Zorn, held at National Gallery of Art.
The image depicts a nude woman standing on a cliff's edge, gazing out at the water below. Her body is positioned in a contemplative pose, with her weight shifted onto one leg. The cliff's edge and the water are rendered in dark, expressive lines, while the woman's form is more subtly defined. In the background, the water stretches out to the horizon, meeting the sky at a gentle curve. The overall mood of the image is one of quiet reflection, as if the woman is lost in thought. This etching is reminiscent of the works of Zorn, Anders, a master of the medium.
Anders Leonard Zorn was born in February 1860 in Mora, Dalarna, the illegitimate son of a Bavarian brewer and a Swedish farmer's daughter; his mother died shortly after his birth, and his grandparents raised him.
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