Arcadian Landscape with a Doric Temple
1794
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
1794
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The painting is called Arcadian Landscape with a Doric Temple. It was made in the 1790s by Christoph Heinrich Kniep. The artist used pen, brown ink, and brown wash over graphite on laid paper, which was a common technique at that time, and this work is part of the Romanticism movement. You can learn more about this style by looking into the movement: Romanticism.
