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The image displays a landscape with a winding path through rugged terrain, hills, trees, and a cloudy sky. The artwork features detailed etching with a monochromatic sepia color palette, giving it a vintage feel. The path leads through the scene towards rolling hills.
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The image displays a landscape with a winding path through rugged terrain, hills, trees, and a cloudy sky. The artwork features detailed etching with a monochromatic sepia color palette, giving it a vintage feel. The path leads through the scene towards rolling hills.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Path through a Hilly Landscape

Carl Friedrich Ludwig Felix von Rumohr

Date
1831
Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 19.4 x 26.4 cm (7 5/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2007.111.153
Credit line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund
Time span
1826 to 1850
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • German
  • Landscape
  • plant
  • Tree
  • Trees
  • Grass
  • Nature
  • Hills
Provenance

(sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 27 May 1971, no. 407). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Inscription

signed and dated at lower left in brown ink: Rumohr. Dr. 1831.; verso at lower left in graphite: v. Rumohr/12 B

NGA object ID 139200. 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.