Anguish (Schenck)

Anguish
French: Angoisses
ArtistAugust Friedrich Schenck
Yearc. 1878
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions151 cm × 251.2 cm (59 in × 98.9 in)
LocationNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Anguish (French: Angoisses or Angoisse) is an 1878 oil painting by August Friedrich Schenck. It depicts an anguished mother sheep standing over the dead body of her lamb, surrounded by a murder of crows.

Perhaps Schenck's most famous painting, it is held by National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne, Australia since 1880. The painting was an early acquisition by the gallery, a few years after it was founded, and has been voted the most popular of the gallery's 75,000 works on two occasions, in 1906 and 2011.

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