Landscape with the Temptation of Christ
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.7 × 33.8 cm (10 1/8 × 13 5/16 in.); Plate: 28 × 36 cm (11 1/16 × 14 3/16 in.); Sheet: 35 × 48 cm (13 13/16 × 18 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
141433
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...