Mountain Path with a Tree
1825–35
Medium
Graphite, watercolor, and gouache on blue paper
Dimensions
18 7/16 x 13 1/8 in. (46.8 x 33.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift and Van Day Truex Fund, 2008
Accession Number
2008.512
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Friedrich Nerly · 1807–1878
**Friedrich von Nerly** (originally Christian Friedrich Nehrlich, 1807–1878) was a German Romantic painter best known for his luminous vedute of Venice, where he spent most of his adult life. Born in Erfurt to a postal official who died young, he moved at age eight to Hamburg to live with relatives. There he received early drawing instruction from his aunt and later from his uncle, the lithographe...