About this artwork
Thoma was not only a painter and printmaker, but also a museum director. This large working drawing (a modello) was squared for transfer for a painting that has yet to be found and was independently prized for its delicacy and refined mood. The same year that Thoma drew this sheet it was selected for a special facsimile reproduction by a Berlin printer.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Hans Thoma
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Title
- Fountain with Putti in the Garden of the Villa Borghese
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Place
- Germany (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1880
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Medium
- Black crayon over graphite, with opaque white watercolor and touches of red chalk, squared with graphite for transfer, on tan wove paper
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Dimensions
- 46.6 × 34.6 cm (18 3/8 × 13 5/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Margaret Day Blake Fund
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Reference Number
- 2010.541
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/205208/manifest.json