Figures Seated by a Lake in a Wooded Landscape
1820
- Medium
- brown wash and point of brush with graphite underdrawing
- Dimensions
- 19.8 × 26.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-1102125
Before he became famous as a history painter, John Martin earned a living by teaching and painting watercolors. His so-called sepia drawings, landscapes in monochromatic wash, found an enthusiastic audience. The artist’s method for painting foliage in these drawings was idiosyncratic; form and texture were created almost entirely in negative spaces without the use of line. Highlighted leaves, bark, vines, and roots were delineated with the white of the paper, creating a peculiar, instantly recognizable, spongy effect.
Provenance
Severance Fund, 1997.38
Registry history
- 1820 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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