En kalv 1894

Søren Lund created this etching, "En kalv," sometime during his career, using delicate lines to capture a calf in a field. The composition immediately draws you in with its focus on the calf’s rear, challenging conventional portraiture. The calf dominates the foreground, its monochrome hide rendered with detailed cross-hatching that gives it texture and volume. Lund positions the viewer directly behind the animal, altering our perspective. This placement destabilizes the traditional pastoral scene, inviting a more intimate, almost confrontational gaze. The background, with its distant figures and vague structures, is secondary, sketched with a lighter touch. Through this stark composition, Lund evokes a sense of closeness and immediacy. The calf is not merely an animal in a landscape, but a presence demanding attention. The use of etching, with its fine, precise lines, elevates the everyday subject into a study of form and texture. This approach transforms a simple scene into a meditation on perspective and representation, urging us to reconsider our relationship with the natural world.