Resting Travelers in a Mountainous Landscape

1806

Franz Joseph Leopold

Associated Names
Franz Joseph Leopold

Artist, German, 1783 - 1832

Wilhelm Reuter

Publisher, German, 1768 - 1834

The image shows a landscape with a young person seated amidst lush vegetation and rocky terrain, with trees, a rocky cliff, a river or stream, and a dynamic sky with clouds in the background. The scene is depicted with detailed brushstrokes and a monochromatic color palette in shades of brown, resembling an etching or engraving.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove cream paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 30 × 41.7 cm (11 13/16 × 16 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 40.3 × 54.5 cm (15 7/8 × 21 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.356

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Winkler 1975, no. 7, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. W. A. Luz [d.1959], Augsburg (mark written in graphite, not in Lugt). (Hill Stone Fine Prints & Drawings, New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 7, 2005; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1975

  • Winkler, Rolf A. Die Fruhzeit der deutschen Lithographie. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1975: no. 7, only

Inscriptions

below image: Mit der Feder auf Marmor gezeichnet von Franz Leopold / vervielfältigt und im Verlage bei W. Reuter, Berlin 1806; on verso, in graphite: Dukin (?) 20.10.53 / Dr. W. A. Luz, Augsburge Sh. (?) 61; Dussler J. / Winkler 479. 6. / aubild pl. 1.

Wikidata ID

Q76556717

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