Capriccio with Antique Ruins

1730s

Johann George Böhm

Associated Names
Johann George Böhm

Artist, German, probably 1696 - 1738

The image shows an aerial view of a scene with a stone structure, a distant classical building, a figure with tools, and a tree. The brushstrokes are loose, creating a sketch-like quality. The color palette is primarily earthy tones with some lighter highlights.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink, brush and gray ink, and gray wash over black chalk, heightened with white on brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 41.4 x 27 cm (16 5/16 x 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1996.148.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Eva Dencker, San Jose, California); purchased by NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1997

  • Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 111.

Inscriptions

across bottom in pen and brown ink: JG Böhme inv et fecit; by later hand, lower right verso in pen and brown ink: No. 85

Wikidata ID

Q64581977

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