Romitorio a Albano
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 28.2 x 38 cm (11 1/8 x 14 15/16 in.) sheet: 39.1 x 49.1 cm (15 3/8 x 19 5/16 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
New Century Fund
Accession Number
2003.86.21
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...