Johann Christian Reinhart
A Tree Stump with a Tree Trunk and Gnarled Roots

CultureGerman
Titles
  • A Tree Stump with a Tree Trunk and Gnarled Roots
Date1798
PlaceItaly
MediumBlack chalk on white laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 11 × 16 7/8 in. (27.9 × 42.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Director's Accessions Endowment
Object number90.421
Not on view

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Provenance[W.M. Brady & Co., New York, by April 16, 1990]; purchased by MFAH, 1990.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "The Drawings of Adolph Menzel - Supplementary Exhibition," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 December 1990 - 27 January 1991
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Insscribed on the old mount: "Original Zeichnung v. Reinhart" "Original Zeichnung v. Reinhart", "a Giricomio (?). Vicin' a Tivoli" [this mount was not received by the museum)
Signed and dated on the image, lower right: "C. Reinhart Tivoli / 1798"

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