Hilly Landscape with Landsberg Castle
1830/1836
Artist, German, 1796 - 1867

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with watercolor over graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Joan and David Maxwell
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Dimensions
sheet: 34.9 x 52.6 cm (13 3/4 x 20 11/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.181
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
H.W. Fichter, Frankfurt am Main, 1988. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, 246-247, no. 94.
Bibliography
1990
König, Oskar Alfred. Carl Wagne, 1796-1867: Der romantische Landscaftsmaler und Meininger Hofmaler. Crailsheim, 1990: 60 (reprod.).
Inscriptions
verso in blue chalk: C. Wagner; in graphite, Carl Wagner
Watermarks
Van der Ley; woman with scarf on orb on plinth (a better formed version of Heawood 1364 (without VDL)
Wikidata ID
Q64538034