Literary Illustration: Two Men and Woman in Interior
Medium
Red chalk with brush and gray wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
6.4 × 7.8 cm (2 9/16 × 3 1/8 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
114959
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...