Around Muckendorf
Medium
Etching; third state
Dimensions
plate: 11 1/4 x 13 in. sheet: 12 x 13 3/4 in.
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.21.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
Johann Christoph Erhard’s 1818 etching *Around Muckendorf* captures a tranquil rural landscape in the early nineteenth century. The scene features modest houses nestled among trees, with figures of men and distant mountains suggesting the quiet harmony between people and nature. As an etching in its third state, the work demonstrates the artist’s command of fine linework to evoke atmosphere and depth on the copper plate. Etchings like this one allowed artists to reproduce intricate natural details for a wider audience, making landscape imagery more accessible beyond painted originals. Created...
About the Artist
Johann Christoph Erhard · 1795–1822
Johann Christoph Erhard (1795–1822) was a German painter and etcher of the Romantic era whose sensitive landscape studies and skillful prints earned him a growing reputation before his tragically early death at twenty-six. Born in Nuremberg, he studied at the Nuremberg Academy and later in Munich, where he was influenced by the Romantic landscape tradition and the revival of interest in the art of...