Tivoli and the Temple of the Sibyl above the Aniene Gorge

Tivoli and the Temple of the Sibyl above the Aniene Gorge by Johann Christian Reinhart

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 51.9 x 67.3 cm (20 7/16 x 26 1/2 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke

Accession Number

2007.111.27

About the Artist

Johann Christian Reinhart · 17611847

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...

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