Landscape with Trees and Craggy Rocks

Franz Innocenz Josef Kobell

Associated Names
Franz Innocenz Josef Kobell

Artist, German, 1749 - 1822

The image shows a landscape drawing from a slight elevation. The horizon is positioned towards the upper section with distant mountains in the background. The composition mainly features trees and rocky formations, drawn in a linear style using flowing pen strokes. There are large trees and rocks detailed with cross-hatching in the foreground, with smaller trees scattered across open fields in the distance. The color palette is monochromatic with natural tones and dark brown ink.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London); William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA, January 1967; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London, December 1966.

Bibliography

1993

  • National Gallery of Art. Drawings from the O'Neal Collection. Exh. cat. Washington, 1993, checklist p. 93 (reproduced).

Inscriptions

by later hand, center verso in graphite: Jerem 46-23 / Kobel / Y

Wikidata ID

Q64570492

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