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The image features a landscape with a large tree in the foreground on the right. The terrain includes earthy browns and greens, leading to rolling hills with various trees in the background. The horizon is high in the image, showing distant mountains and a faint outline of a structure or settlement under a serene sky. The color palette is soft with earth tones, yellow, green, and blue, creating a tranquil atmosphere. The brushstrokes in the watercolor painting are delicate, capturing details of foliage, light, and shadow across the landscape.
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The image features a landscape with a large tree in the foreground on the right. The terrain includes earthy browns and greens, leading to rolling hills with various trees in the background. The horizon is high in the image, showing distant mountains and a faint outline of a structure or settlement under a serene sky. The color palette is soft with earth tones, yellow, green, and blue, creating a tranquil atmosphere. The brushstrokes in the watercolor painting are delicate, capturing details of foliage, light, and shadow across the landscape.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A View across the Inn Valley to the Alps and Neubeuern

Johann Georg von Dillis

Date
c. 1790
Medium
pen and gray and brown ink with watercolor over graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 24.1 x 36.1 cm (9 1/2 x 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2007.111.67
Credit line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin
Time span
1776 to 1800
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • German
  • figure
  • Landscape
  • Tree
  • Trees
  • Mountain
  • Village
Provenance

Bruno de Bayser, Paris, 1975. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Inscription

by the artist in brown ink: Pranenberg/gegen Neubeyern; veros in black chalk: M J HAUMONT 49 x 38 joue accul acajou amateur[?][illeg.]

Watermarks

J HONIG/&/ZOONEN (compare bottom half of Churchill 322)

NGA object ID 139212. 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.