Entwurf zum Gemälde "Verödeter Friedhof"
um 1847
Medium
Bleistiftzeichnung mit Weißhöhungen (Gouache) auf Papier (Wasserzeichen Canson Freres)
Dimensions
Blattmaße: 25,2 × 36 cm
Classification
Zeichnung
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
12195
Art Historical Context
Joseph Selleny’s *Entwurf zum Gemlde "Verödeterhof"* (Design for Painting "Desolate Cemetery created around 1847, offers a poignant glimpse into the Austrian artist’s preparatory process during the Biedermeier era.elleny (1824–1875), renowned for his atmospheric landscapes and genre scenes, the melancholy beauty of decay in this pencil sketch, likely envisioning a larger oil painting that evokes Romantic themes of transience and nature’s reclamation. The desolate cemetery motif reflects mid-19th-century preoccupations with mortality amid Europe’s social upheavals, including the revolutions of ...