Poultry Yard
Max Rudolf Schramm-Zittau
(German, 1874–1929)
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions125.1 x 201 cm (49 1/4 x 79 1/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Hugo Reisinger
Accession number11.9
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While this painting might be categorized as a landscape or even a scene of daily life, it has the tight focus and deliberate arrangement of interrelated forms that characterize still-life compositions. Unlike most still lifes, however, there is a suggestion of a story here, as the male turkey and peacock, each surrounded by females, confront each other across the poultry yard.
InscriptionsUpper right: R U D O L F S C H R A M M -ZITTAUProvenance1911, Hugo Reisinger (b. 1856 - d. 1914), New York; gift of Reisinger to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 2, 1911)
