Art Institute of Chicago
Landscape with Pan Playing a Flute
Johann Christian ReinhartLinkedCulture matchlcp-1708f121f7e1
- Date
- 1795
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 182684
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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- Suzanne Lord Folds Endowment Fund
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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