Feeding Mule - Front, from Die Zweite Thierfolge
<p>One of Reinhart’s rare departures from a lifelong focus on landscapes, this realistic pair of etchings (2013.439–440) depicts two views of a single mule standing in the Italian countryside. The mule’s dual positioning possibly alludes to Renaissance-era studies of the female nude. Thus the mule becomes not just a prop in a landscape, but the artwork’s protagonist, a carefully studied figure atop a familiarly bucolic ground.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1800
- Dimensions
- Plate: 14.6 × 10.8 cm (5 3/4 × 4 5/16 in.); Sheet: 17.4 × 13.2 cm (6 7/8 × 5 1/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist
Painting
Johann Christian Reinhart was a German painter and engraver. He was one of the founders, along with Joseph Anton Koch, of German romantic classical landscape painting.
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1824 · Graphite and black chalk
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1811 · etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper
Rocky Landscape with Pan Playing His Flute (In the Park of the Villa Chigi, Ariccia)
1808 · Pen and black ink, and brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Head of a Young Bull, from Die Zweite Thierfolge
1803 · Etching on ivory laid paper
Two Dogs Resting, from Die Zweite Thierfolge
1800 · Etching on ivory laid paper
Record
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- 1800
- Dimensions
- Plate: 14.6 × 10.8 cm (5 3/4 × 4 5/16 in.); Sheet: 17.4 × 13.2 cm (6 7/8 × 5 1/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1800-097650
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified