Landscape with Pan Playing a Flute
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.4 × 27.7 cm (7 11/16 × 10 15/16 in.); Plate: 20.6 × 28.7 cm (8 1/8 × 11 5/16 in.); Sheet: 37.5 × 50.1 cm (14 13/16 × 19 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
182684
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Enamored with landscapes like many other German Romantic artists, Reinhart worked exclusively in that genre, often including vignettes of mythological figures in his prints and drawings. Although Reinhart sometimes showed contemporary people playing music and communing with nature rather than gods, here Pan is identified by his cloven hoofs and shaggy legs. Reinhart documented some of his sketches as depicting specific locations around Rome, but this place is intentionally unidentified. Pan’s qu...
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...