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REINERMANN, FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN (1764 Wetzlar - 1835
Frankfurt)
Rock Formation and Stream close to St. Matiné in Switzerland
Signed, dated and located via the artist's inscription: "Studie
bei St. Martiné im Münsterthal gezeichnet von F.C.
Reinermann fec. 1794"
Preliminary drawing in black chalk, watercolor, heightened
with white, on brown paper, 119 x 201 mm.
Reinermann travelled to Italy in 1789 where he spent several
months as a student of Louis Ducros in Rome. Between the
years 1793 and 1803 he worked in Switzerland, where this
drawing was executed.
Its innovative view of nature seems to be anticipating
Romanticism. This is evidenced by the lack of staffage,
which is highly unusual for the time.
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