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The image depicts a landscape with a horizon in the distance, showing trees, hills, and mountains. The brushstrokes are fine and detailed, with a primarily sepia color palette. A group of figures in classical attire are near a large tree, with a serene body of water reflecting the scene. In the middle distance, a cliff holds a temple-like structure above waterfalls, under an unobstructed sky.
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The image depicts a landscape with a horizon in the distance, showing trees, hills, and mountains. The brushstrokes are fine and detailed, with a primarily sepia color palette. A group of figures in classical attire are near a large tree, with a serene body of water reflecting the scene. In the middle distance, a cliff holds a temple-like structure above waterfalls, under an unobstructed sky.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

Arcadian Landscape with a Doric Temple

Christoph Heinrich Kniep

Date
1790s
Medium
pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 39.2 x 56.5 cm (15 7/16 x 22 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2000.70.2
Credit line
Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbáty Fund
Time span
1776 to 1800
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • German
  • Landscape
  • Temple
  • Forest
  • Lake
  • Figures
Provenance

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

NGA object ID 115442. 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.