Italian Landscape
18th century
Medium
Black chalk, brush and gray wash, black wash.
Dimensions
9 11/16 x 15 7/16 in. (24.6 x 39.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958
Accession Number
59.23.37
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate *Italian Landscape*, created anonymously by a French artist in the th century, captures the timeless allure of Italy's natural beauty through a masterful use of black chalk, brush and gray and black washes. Measuring just 9 11/16 x 15 7/16 inches, intimate drawing evokes the rolling hills, lush trees, and expansive vistas typical of Italian scenery, rendered with subtle tonal variations that suggest depth and atmosphere. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Drawings and Prints, it entered the collection via the 1958 bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer. In the 1...
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 18th century · 1700–1800
The artist known as Anonymous, French, 18th century, represents a collective of unidentified talents active roughly between 1700 and 1800, a period of profound artistic evolution in France from the opulent Rococo to the austere dawn of Neoclassicism and Revolutionary fervor. Little is documented about their personal training or mentors, as their anonymity obscures individual biographies, though th...