Study of Rushing Water

ca. 1850

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Gille studied landscape painting with Dahl in the 1820s and became a prolific plein-air sketcher. Yet he lived by the modest income he earned as an illustrator and printmaker, producing images that bear little obvious connection to the practice of painting out of doors. This work is from a group of over one hundred oil studies Gille made in the countryside surrounding Dresden that were acquired after his death by the local collector Johann Friedrich Lahmann (1858–1937).

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Title: Study of Rushing Water
Artist: Christian Friedrich Gille (German, Ballenstedt 1805–1899 Dresden)
Date: ca. 1850
Medium: Oil on paper
Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 12 1/8 in. (22.2 x 30.8 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009
Object Number: 2009.400.66
Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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