This is a drawing of two owls resting in an abstract natural landscape. The drawing shows two owls nestled together surrounded by natural forms resembling ice or stalagmites against a stylized sky. Above them, a group of birds fly in formation across the night sky, accompanied by faint cloud formations and a distant single star. The use of monochrome and intricate line work gives the piece a mystical and ethereal quality.

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Kerstnacht (Christmas Eve)

Theodoor van Hoijtema (Dutch, 1863 - 1917)

1894

Medium: lithograph printed in black on buff wove paper
Classification: Print
Dimensions: image: 40.4 × 20.2 cm (15 7/8 × 7 15/16 in.) ; sheet: 48.7 × 30.5 cm (19 3/16 × 12 in.)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line: Gift of Nancy Jane and Alan Shestack
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed

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