Travelers at the Rock Arch in the Uttewalder Grund

Johann Moritz Gottfried Jentzsch German

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 199

Jentzsch, a landscape specialist active at the Dresden court in the beginning of the nineteenth century, depicted tourists visiting a natural attraction in the Uttewalder Valley known as the Felsentor ("rock arch"). A number of German Romantic artists sketched the dramatic spot, a narrow passage between two high cliffs. In this sheet, two gentlemen assist their ladies in crossing a precarious bridge of planks as another man examines the remarkable rock formations through his spectacles.

Travelers at the Rock Arch in the Uttewalder Grund, Johann Moritz Gottfried Jentzsch (German, Hinterjessen 1759–1826 Dresden), Brown ink and wash on wove paper

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