A Woodland Path in Rosenthal in Winter, 1785

Not on View

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.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Joan and David Maxwell

Accession Number

2007.111.149

Artists / Makers

Johann Christian Reinhart (artist) German, 1761 - 1847

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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.

Associated Names

Lüttichau-Haniel, Angelika von
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: no. 40, 36, under nos. 66, 67, and 87.

Bibliography

1995: Schmid, F. Carlo. "Naturansichten und Ideallandschaften: die Landschaftsgraphik von Johann Christian Reinhart und seinem Umkreis." Ph.D. dissertation. 2 vols. Berlin, 1995: 2:21.

1998: Schmid, F. Carlo. Naturansichten und Ideallandschaften: Die Landschaftsgraphik von Johann Christian Reinhart und seinem Umkreis. Berlin, 1998: 78-79, 371 (reprod.).

2002: Schmid, F. Carlo. Johann Christian Reinhart, Rheinansichten, Views of the Rhine, 1787, Katalog. C. G. Boerner. Düsseldorf, 2002: 26, note 34.

2003: Thomas Le Claire Kunsthandel. Katalog XIV, Master Drawings, Recent Acquisitions, A Review of the Years 1982-2002. Hamburg, 2003: under no. 24.

2008: Fröhlich, Anke. Christoph Nathe 1753-1806: Monographie und Werkverzeichnis der Handzeichnungen und Druckgraphik. Bautzen, 2008: 55, note 261.

2010: Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin (Spring 2010): 7, 8, fig. 9.