Fountain with Putti in the Garden of the Villa Borghese
Hans Thoma
1880
- Medium
- Black crayon over graphite, with opaque white watercolor and touches of red chalk, squared with graphite for transfer, on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 46.6 × 34.6 cm (18 3/8 × 13 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- paper
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
crayonprints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
Thoma was not only a painter and printmaker, but also a museum director. This large working drawing (a modello) was squared for transfer for a painting that has yet to be found and was independently prized for its delicacy and refined mood. The same year that Thoma drew this sheet it was selected for a special facsimile reproduction by a Berlin printer.
