Tivoli and the Temple of the Sibyl above the Aniene Gorge
1794/1798
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 · 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...