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The image shows a landscape with trees on either side, a high horizon showcasing rolling hills and distant mountains with faint outlines of more mountains in the background. The brushstrokes are delicate and detailed, particularly in the trees and land textures. The color scheme is monochromatic, primarily in various shades of brown. A rocky outcrop with a tree, a small structure, and sheep grazing is on the left, while two figures sit with sheep on the right.
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The image shows a landscape with trees on either side, a high horizon showcasing rolling hills and distant mountains with faint outlines of more mountains in the background. The brushstrokes are delicate and detailed, particularly in the trees and land textures. The color scheme is monochromatic, primarily in various shades of brown. A rocky outcrop with a tree, a small structure, and sheep grazing is on the left, while two figures sit with sheep on the right.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

Arcadian Landscape with a Mausoleum

Christoph Heinrich Kniep

Date
1790s
Medium
pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 38.6 x 56.8 cm (15 3/16 x 22 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2000.70.1
Credit line
Director's Discretionary Fund
Time span
1776 to 1800
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Baroque
  • German
  • Landscape
  • topographical
  • landscape
  • Pastoral
Provenance

(sale, Christie's, South Kensington, 16 April 1999, no. 268); (Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg); purchased 2000 by NGA.

NGA object ID 111810. 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.