Leaping Trout — About This Work
Winslow Homer, 1889
About the Work
A silver trout breaks above dark water, making the fish itself the centre of the event. Homer brings the viewer close to its leap instead of placing a fisherman in command of the scene.
The museum relates the subject to his Adirondack work and notes the combination of translucent blue-grey washes with brighter opaque touches. The changing materials help describe both the fish's surface and the abrupt movement through air.
Scraped highlights and dry brush enliven the water below. These small interruptions in the painted surface give the pond a reflective presence, setting the trout's concentrated motion against a setting that remains difficult to read completely.
The Work
Artist: Winslow Homer
Title: Leaping Trout
Date: 1889
Medium: Watercolor over graphite
Recorded dimensions: 50.6 × 35 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1973.142
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 50 × 70 cm Classic Frame, landscape.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Anonymous Gift. 1973.142.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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