Ruin of the Church of Our Lady with the Tombstones of Genevieve and the Count Palatine Siegfried in the Mosel Valley near Andernach, from Collection of Memorable Medieval Buildings in Germany
1821
Medium
Lithograph in black with beige tint-stone on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 40.3 × 31.6 cm (15 7/8 × 12 1/2 in.); Sheet: 57.3 × 40.1 cm (22 9/16 × 15 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
158743
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Part of a large Italian artist family recently settled in Munich, Domenico Quaglio was active in Germany for his entire career. Like his father, he initially made his living as a theater scenery painter for the Munich court, and he was even named court painter for architectural scenery by age 21. Leaving Munich to make topographical paintings of sites throughout the country, he was also an adherent of lithography, a relatively new printmaking technique invented in Munich in 1798. Quaglio travel...