Nemi

Johann Georg von Dillis

ca. 1805 · Oil on paper, laid down on canvas · European Paintings

This sketch, executed in brisk strokes with thinned paint in monochrome tones, is thought to reflect Dillis’s interest in English watercolor technique. In Rome, Dillis studied works by English landscape painters he admired, including Richard Wilson and Joseph Wright of Derby, as well as pictures by the Austrian master Joseph Anton Koch.

Artist

Johann Georg von Dillis

Date

ca. 1805

Medium

Oil on paper, laid down on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009