Arcadian Landscape with Three Figures at a Lake
Medium
Black chalk and white gouache on brown paper
Dimensions
sheet: 23 x 33 7/8 in. (58.4 x 86 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 2007
Accession Number
2007.264
Tags
MenWomenLakesLandscapes
About the Artist
Johann Christian Reinhart · 1761–1847
Johann Christian Reinhart (1761–1847) was a German painter and engraver who became one of the founding figures of German Romantic classical landscape painting, spending nearly six decades in Rome and transforming his adopted city into an inexhaustible subject. Born in Hof, Bavaria, on 24 January 1761, Reinhart initially followed his father into theological study before his passion for drawing took...