Rocky Cliff
Johann Christian Reinhart
18th–19th century
Medium
Graphite and brown wash
Dimensions
sheet: 12 7/8 x 11 1/8 in. (32.7 x 28.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Bruce and Angelika Livie, 2005
Accession Number
2005.181
Tags
Landscapes
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...