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The image shows a winding path through a natural landscape, with soft strokes defining the horizon line and delicate brushstrokes conveying texture in the grasses and rocks. The color palette is muted, primarily in shades of beige and grey. Closest to us, tufts of grass and small stones populate the path, which becomes more surrounded by taller grasses as it extends into the distance.
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The image shows a winding path through a natural landscape, with soft strokes defining the horizon line and delicate brushstrokes conveying texture in the grasses and rocks. The color palette is muted, primarily in shades of beige and grey. Closest to us, tufts of grass and small stones populate the path, which becomes more surrounded by taller grasses as it extends into the distance.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Path through Fields near Leipzig

Carl Gustav Carus

Date
c. 1812
Medium
graphite and wash on slightly blued laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 18.2 x 27.5 cm (7 3/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2000.65.1
Credit line
Director's Discretionary Fund
Time span
1801 to 1825
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Baroque
  • German
  • Germany
  • landscape
  • Plants
  • Meadow
Provenance

Private Collection, Zittau, pre World War I and then by descent; (sale, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 10 June 1999, no. 362); (C. G. Boerner, Inc., New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Inscription

by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: 174; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: LB 6 171 Cat. XIX 336b; by later hand, lower center in graphite: 126 / Carus. G. Medizinalrat; by later hand, lower right verso in red chalk: 6171

Watermarks

Dutch armorial: crozier in crest flanked by two lions (not identified)

NGA object ID 111752. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.