A Woodland Path in Rosenthal in Winter

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Woodland Path in Rosenthal in Winter

Johann Christian Reinhart

Date
1785
Medium
pen and brown ink with gray and brown wash over graphite on light blue-green laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 33.3 x 47 cm (13 1/8 x 18 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2007.111.149
Credit line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Joan and David Maxwell
Time span
1776 to 1800
Department
CG-E

Subjects and terms

  • German
  • Tree
  • Winter
  • Woods
  • Road
  • Figures
  • Wood
Provenance

(sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 6 June 1937, no. 156). Alice Haniel née Bloem, Wistinghausen; Angelika von Lüttichau-Haniel, Bad Godesberg. (sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 11 November 1979, no. 94). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Inscription

vero, signed(?) and located in black ink: Im Rosenthal b. LEIPZIG 1785 C. Reinhart; in modern graphite in another hand: 2795

Watermarks

Strasburg Lile (Churchill 408)

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