Italian Landscape with Trees, Rocks and a Resting Deer
Medium
Graphite and black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 17 11/16 x 15 9/16 in. (44.9 x 39.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Thomas and Gianna le Claire, 2006
Accession Number
2006.219.2
Tags
DeerLandscapesTrees
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...