Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 1982.444
Date:
1851
Notes:
Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 579.
Summary:
Interior of a barn with three terriers stalking rats that crawl among the sheaves of barley on the barn floor. One dog has already captured a rat in his mouth, another dog is about to pounce on a rat, and a third dog pokes his head into the barley as he looks for a rat.
