Young Girls at a Fountain (recto); Fragment of Sketch of Legs (verso)
1790–1799 (recto); 1781/1847 (verso)
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash (recto), and pen and brown ink with touches of graphite (verso), on cream laid paper
Dimensions
26.7 × 19 cm (10 9/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113852
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...