Goddess Appearing to Two Figures
Medium
Pen and black ink with brush and brown and beige wash, over graphite, on ivory laid paper, tipped on cream card, tipped on cream wove paper
Dimensions
11.2 × 5.9 cm (4 7/16 × 2 3/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
114960
About the Artist
Jacob Wilhelm Mechau · 1745–1808
Jacob Wilhelm Mechau (1745–1808) was a German painter and draughtsman who became one of the more distinctive landscape artists working in Rome during the late eighteenth century. Born in Dresden in 1745, Mechau received his early artistic education in the rich environment of that city's court culture, which placed a high premium on classical training and technical refinement. He later made his way...