The Lovers
Medium
Pen lithograph in brown on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 44.4 × 56.2 cm (17 1/2 × 22 3/16 in.); Sheet: 49 × 60.3 cm (19 5/16 × 23 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
149578
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Johann Heinrich Ramberg studied history painting with Benjamin West in London from 1781 to 1788, but he found livelier inspiration in the English caricature tradition of William Hogarth and Thomas Rowlandson. On his return to Germany, he made his reputation by designing a classical curtain for a theater in his native Hannover, though he was more successful as a satirist and book illustrator. The Lovers, which is historicizing in its broad scale, slyly adds humor, romance, and a fairy-tale ambian...