Wooded Landscape with Lake and Mountains (from the Cropsey Album)
Paul Weber
1854 · Graphite and sgraffito on prepared Bristol board · The American Wing
A German émigré working in the Düsseldorf style, Weber is perhaps best known as the teacher of William Trost Richards, also represented in this exhibition, who applied Weber’s meticulous standard of draftsmanship to his own work. In this drawing the artist manages a subtle transition of tone from the darkened trunks and roots of the foreground to the lightest tones in the untouched paper of the sky. The brilliant highlights in the middle ground and clouds were produced not buy applying pigment, but by scratching off the upper tinted layer of the sheet to reveal the white gouache undercoating of the specially prepared Bristol board.
- Artist
- Paul Weber
- Date
- 1854
- Medium
- Graphite and sgraffito on prepared Bristol board
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Purchase, Charles and Anita Blatt Gift, 1970
