Landscape with an Antique Tomb and Two Wayfarers
Salomon Gessner
1768
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over a sketch in black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 8 7/16 x 13 11/16 in. (21.5 x 34.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2009
Accession Number
2009.254
Tags
TombsMountainsLandscapesTrees
About the Artist
Salomon Gessner · 1730–1788
Salomon Gessner was born in Zurich in 1730 into a family of printers and publishers, an upbringing that placed books, images, and ideas at the center of his world from an early age. Though largely self-taught as a visual artist, he received some instruction during a period in Berlin, where he encountered the German Rococo tradition, and his mature work reflects a deep absorption in the pastoral li...