Landscape with Pan Playing a Flute

Prints and Drawings

1795

Johann Christian Reinhart
German, 1761-1847

Enamored with landscapes like many other German Romantic artists, Reinhart worked exclusively in that genre, often including vignettes of mythological figures in his prints and drawings. Although Reinhart sometimes showed contemporary people playing music and communing with nature rather than gods, here Pan is identified by his cloven hoofs and shaggy legs. Reinhart documented some of his sketches as depicting specific locations around Rome, but this place is intentionally unidentified. Pan’s quiet moment under the broken trunk of a massive tree epitomizes both the idea of a fantastic Arcadian wilderness as well as the fragility of that dream.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Johann Christian Reinhart
Title: Landscape with Pan Playing a Flute
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1792–1798
Medium: Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 19.4 × 27.7 cm (7 11/16 × 10 15/16 in.); Plate: 20.6 × 28.7 cm (8 1/8 × 11 5/16 in.); Sheet: 37.5 × 50.1 cm (14 13/16 × 19 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Suzanne Lord Folds Endowment
Reference Number: 2004.519
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Nagler 25

Feuchtmayr 81 I/I, proof

Dry 81

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