The Great Heroic Landscape, Dedicated to Schiller
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 36.5 × 48.9 cm (14 3/8 × 19 1/4 in.) plate: 40.09 × 51.3 cm (15 13/16 × 20 3/16 in.) sheet: 46 × 59 cm (18 1/8 × 23 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Helena E.M. Gunnarsson Fund
Accession Number
2023.66.4
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...