Et in Arcadia Ego
1790/1800
Artist, German, 1759 - 1841
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and gray and black ink with watercolor over graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann
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Dimensions
sheet: 54.2 x 43.5 cm (21 5/16 x 17 1/8 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.7
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Hildegard Fritz-Denneville, London; (Katrin Bellinger, Munich) 1989. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1991
Johann Georg Dillis: Landschaft und Menschenbild, Munich, Neue Pinakothek, Vienna, Albertina, 1991 - 1992: 82, no. 8.
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 19, 38, 137,138-139, 149, 150, 232, no. 43(entry by Hinrich Sieveking).
Bibliography
1997
Baumüller, Barbara. "Gartenbild und Baumporträt im Werk des Münchner Landschaftsmalers Johann Georg von Dillis (1759 - 1841)" Inszenierte Natur. Landschaftskunst im 19. und 20. Jahnhundert. Stuttgart, 1997: 42-43 (ill.), 50.
2005
Bellinger, Katrin. Master Drawings, 1985 - 2005. Munich, 2005: 124-125, no. 58.
Inscriptions
by the artist on the architectural fragment at bottom left, in brown ink: ET IN ARCA/DIA EGO
Wikidata ID
Q64581970