Entrance to the Guttensteiner Valley
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.6 × 20.9 cm (6 9/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Plate: 17.4 × 21.2 cm (6 7/8 × 8 3/8 in.); Sheet: 19.8 × 23.6 cm (7 13/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
141445
About the Artist
Johann Christoph Erhard · 1795–1822
Johann Christoph Erhard (1795–1822) was a German painter and etcher of the Romantic era whose sensitive landscape studies and skillful prints earned him a growing reputation before his tragically early death at twenty-six. Born in Nuremberg, he studied at the Nuremberg Academy and later in Munich, where he was influenced by the Romantic landscape tradition and the revival of interest in the art of...