Gustav Friedrich Hetsch
German, 1788-1864
A View in San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura, Rome
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Gustav Friedrich Hetsch
German, 1788-1864c. 1820
A View in San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura, Rome
Gustav Friedrich Hetsch German, 1788-1864 →pen and ink drawingsprints and drawing
Date
c. 1820
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and various brown washes on ivory wove paper, edge-mounted to an ivory laid paper inlay
Dimensions
29.5 × 38.8 cm (11 5/8 × 15 5/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Suzanne Lord Folds Endowment Fund
Hetsch was an influential Danish-German architect and teacher, known for the meticulous technique and
the Romantic classicism of his drawings. In 1812 he went to Rome and in 1815 to Copenhagen. This sheet is interesting for its coded commentary: the processing clerics and the women kneeling in prayer before a reliquary altar model religious devotion, but the presence of two beggars on the steps of the church poignantly underscores more earthly concerns.
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