1845
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Sketches in Belgium and Germany, Second Series: No. 26 - Tomb of Rubens, St. Jacques, Antwerp is a 1845 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This drawing shows a tomb inside a dim church. A carved altar holds a statue of a robed figure on top, with smaller scenes painted on the front. Below, a priest in white kneels at the base, and a group of people in old-fashioned clothes stand nearby, some looking down at the tomb. Heavy curtains frame the scene on the right. The tomb belongs to a famous artist, but the drawing focuses on the quiet details—the way light hits the carvings and the way the people’s clothes fold. The artist made this while traveling in Europe. Next, look up chiaroscuro to see how light and shadow create depth in art.
Louis Haghe (17 March 1806 – 9 March 1885) was a lithographer and watercolourist from the Netherlands and then the United Kingdom.
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