Tivoli and the Temple of the Sibyl Above the Aniene Gorge
1824
Artist, German, 1796 - 1867

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink with gray wash, touched with watercolor, over graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 48.6 x 38.5 cm (19 1/8 x 15 3/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.99
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Carl Heumann [1886-1945], Chiemnitz. Helmut Domizlaff [1902-1983], Munich. (Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich); sold 1997 as "near Reinhart" Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1950
Deutsche Romantiker in Italien, Städtische Galerie, Munich, 1950, no. 360, reprod. (as Martin von Rohden).
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 36, 37, 192-195, no. 67 (entry by Andrew Robison), under nos. 41, 65, and 94.
Bibliography
1965
Pinnau, Ruth Irmgard. Johann Martin von Rohden, 1778-1868, Leben und Werk. Bielefeld, 1965: 173, no. Z 88.
2000
Johann Martin von Rohden 1778-1868. Edited by Marianne Heinz. Exh. cat. Staatliche Museen Kassel, Neue Galerie, and Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal. Kassel, 2000: 209.
2010
Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin, Spring 2010: 10, 11, fig. 13.
Inscriptions
verso: light graphite sketch of a coastal scene with trees, cowherd, and a castle on a promontory; inscribed at top right in modern purple pencil: W860/20; at bottom right in modern graphite, six lines erased and now illegible, followed by: RA/Martin von Rohden/615
Watermarks
J WHATMAN/1823
Wikidata ID
Q64538035