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The image is viewed from a slightly elevated perspective, overlooking a garden and a distant landscape. The drawing depicts hills, closely packed buildings, a structure with open arches and a foliage-covered roof, two tall cypress trees, a garden with trees and pathways, and a monochromatic color scheme created using varying shades of grey pencil.
National Gallery of Art · Drawing
Aussicht aus meinem Fenster, via valfonda in Florenz (Gardens in Florence Seen from the Artist's Window)
Anton Krüger
- Date
- 1821
- Medium
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 19.6 x 25 cm (7 11/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 2011.53.1
- Credit line
- Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
- Time span
- 1801 to 1825
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- Italy
- landscape
Provenance
Boguslaw Jolles, Dresden and Vienna (second half of the 19th century)(Lugt 381); (sale, Hugo Helbing, Munich, 28-31 October 1895, no. 1079). Michael Berolzheimer, Garmisch-Partenkirchen. (sale, Adolf Weinmüller, Munich, 9-10 March 1939, no. 712). Albertina, Vienna, no. 28136; restituted to heirs of Michael Berolzheimer in 2010; (Arnoldi-Livie, Munich); purchased 2011 by NGA.
Inscription
lower right in graphite: Aussicht aus meinem Fenster, via valfonda in Florenze im April 1821; by later hand, verso: Anton Drüger / Kupferstecher fec.
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