The Artist, Resting with his Guide
Medium
Etching; fourth state
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/4 x 12 1/16 in. (23.5 x 30.6 cm) plate: 7 3/8 x 10 5/16 in. (18.8 x 26.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1988
Accession Number
1988.1165
Tags
About the Artist
Johann Christoph Erhard · 1795–1822
Johann Christoph Erhard (1795–1822) was a German painter and etcher of the Romantic era whose sensitive landscape studies and skillful prints earned him a growing reputation before his tragically early death at twenty-six. Born in Nuremberg, he studied at the Nuremberg Academy and later in Munich, where he was influenced by the Romantic landscape tradition and the revival of interest in the art of...