Hirte mit Jungrindern auf der Heide. 1904.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in lower right. Verso with various old labels and hand-written numbers. 60.8 x 81 cm (23.9 x 31.8 in).

PROVENANCE: Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart, auction on November 29, 1955, lot 706 ("Rinderkoppel auf dem Heimweg", illu. on plate 13, verso with the gallery label).
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: VI. Esposizione Internazionale d`Arte della Città di Venezia 1905 (Kat. S. 71, Nr. 45 "Sull`orlo della prateria" oder Nr. 48 "Verso casa", verso mit dem Ausstellungsetikett, hierauf abweichend nummeriert "708").

LITERATURE: Georg Biermann, Heinrich von Zügel. Künstlemonographien vol. 99, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1910, p. 102, illu. 118 on p. 104 ("Heimkehr", here with different date "1907").
Ernst Theo Rohnert, Heinrich von Zügel: ein Malerleben, Berlin 1941, p. 80.
"Pictures like [..] 'Heimkehr' are important for a psychological understanding of animals and to gain awareness of the characteristic impressions of Zügel, as he has accomplished, despite earlier highlights - a tremenduous mastery that earns him a prime spot in contemporary art."
Quote from: Georg Biermann, Heinrich von Zügel. Künstlermonographien vol. 99, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1910, p. 102.