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Impressiv work by the famous German artist from the Age of Goethe, a lifelong friend of Friedrich Schiller and undoubtedly one of the leading and most popular artist in Rome at this era. At the edges slightly stained and foxing. Old restoration, presumably by the artist or at the time, with deposited space over the hat of the standing person and laid down on the reverse of another sheet with a unsigned pencil sketch of a anatomical study (self portrait by Reinhart?) in fine condition. For further details please click the small Fig above left.
Provenance: Collection Prof. Dr. Edwin Redslob, Berlin (see also Feuchtmayr, p. 376).
Exhibition: Johann Christian Reinhart. Städtisches Museum Hof, 1961, catalogue, No 62.
Literature: He is listed in many art anthologies, including I. Feuchtmayr, Johann Christian Reinhart, Catalogue Raisonné, Munich 1975. Johann Christian Reinhart and the Transformation of Heroic Landscape, 1790-1800, Timothy F. Mitchell, The Art Bulletin, vol. 71, no. 4 (Dec., 1989), pp. 646-659.
Fine expressive and illustrative caricature of the late Rococo period. A characteristic work by Reinhart towards the end of the 18th Century. Decorative old frame. Further details and price on request.
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