Cow Drinking, from Die Zweite Thierfolge
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 14 × 12.8 cm (5 9/16 × 5 1/16 in.); Sheet: 16.8 × 18.9 cm (6 5/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129577
Art Historical Context
Johann Christian Reinhart's *Cow Drinking*, created in 1800, is a delicate etching from the series *Die Zweite Thierfolge* (The Second Animal Sequence). Printed on ivory laid paper, this intimate work measures just 14 × 12.8 cm on the, inviting close contemplation of its fine lines and textures. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings department, it exemplifies the precision of early 19th-century printmaking. Reinhart, a German artist trained in Rome and influenced by Neoclassicism, excelled in capturing the natural world with a Romantic sensitivity. This series showcases...
About the Artist
Johann Christian Reinhart · 1761–1847
Johann Christian Reinhart (1761–1847) was a German painter and engraver who became one of the founding figures of German Romantic classical landscape painting, spending nearly six decades in Rome and transforming his adopted city into an inexhaustible subject. Born in Hof, Bavaria, on 24 January 1761, Reinhart initially followed his father into theological study before his passion for drawing took...