A Ruined Church in the Forest, c. 1834

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Medium

brush and brown ink and watercolor over graphite on light gray wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 24.8 x 34.3 cm (9 3/4 x 13 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.5

Artists / Makers

Carl Blechen (artist) German, 1798 - 1840

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right in brown ink: 580[?] (fragmentary); verso in brown ink: Ciroul...; in graphite: 1272

Provenance

(sale, Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, 27-28 February 1933, no. 688; ill.). Alice Hanile, née Bloem, Wistinghausen; Angelika von Lüttichau-Haniel, Bad Godesberg. Acquired 1979 by Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Hollstein und Puppel
Lüttichau-Haniel, Angelika von
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1990: Carl Blechen: zwischen Romantik und Realismus, Nationalgalerie Berlin, 1990, 180, no. 247.

2008: L'Age d'or du romantisme allemand: Aquarelles et dessins à l'époque de Goethe, Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris, 2008: 54, cat. no. 3.

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 29, 38, 155, 220-221, no. 81 (entry by Hinrich Sieveking).

Bibliography

1990: Sieveking, Hinrich. "Zeichen der Zeit: von Füssli bis Menzel. Aspekte deutscher Zeichenkunst der Goethezeit." In Zeichnung und Moderne: Modelle zeichnerischer Verfahren. Alsfeld, 1990: 126 and 62, fig. 24.