Corner of the Meadow with Reeds and Other Plants

Corner of the Meadow with Reeds and Other Plants — Adrian Zingg. c. 1800.

Medium: Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite, on off-white wove paper. Dimensions: 18.8 × 23.8 cm (7 7/16 × 9 3/8 in.).

Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Zingg moved to Dresden early in his career and was a prolific draftsman, engraver, and etcher of landscapes. His oeuvre was key to both Romantic and Realist landscape painting in Germany. In its focus on the natural world, this closely observed botanical study is just the type of drawing that profoundly influenced the great German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich.

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