Wooded Landscape with Lake and Mountains (from the Cropsey Album)
A German émigré working in the Düsseldorf style, Weber is perhaps best known as the teacher of William Trost Richards, also represented in this exhibition, who applied Weber’s meticulous standard of draftsmanship to his own work. In this drawing the artist manages a subtle transition of tone from the darkened trunks and roots of the foreground to the lightest tones in the untouched paper of the sky. The brilliant highlights in the middle ground and clouds were produced not buy applying pigment, but by scratching off the upper tinted layer of the sheet to reveal the white gouache undercoating of the specially prepared Bristol board.
Artwork Details
- Title: Wooded Landscape with Lake and Mountains (from the Cropsey Album)
- Artist: Paul Weber (1823–1916)
- Date: 1854
- Geography: Made in Germany
- Culture: American
- Medium: Graphite and sgraffito on prepared Bristol board
- Dimensions: 4 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (11.4 x 17.5 cm)
- Credit Line: Purchase, Charles and Anita Blatt Gift, 1970
- Object Number: 1970.9.15
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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