ID: 700008194 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008194	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

View from Civitella, near Olevano (drawing (visual work); Victor Paul Mohn (German painter and draftsman, 1842 - 1911)...; 1866; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2009.69)

Note: In 1866, Mohn together with Albert Venus and Carl Wilhelm Müller, who were his fellow students with Ludwig Richter at the Dresden Academy, went to Italy to draw the Roman campagna. This is a prime example of Mohn's Italian achievement. It shows a panoramic view over the campagna leading to the hilltop town of Olevano, beloved by the Nazarenes and the German artists who followed them. Mohn uses an intricate and beautiful manner of dense shading alternating with open, loosely drawn passages to create a space both vast but full of incident and detail. He gradates the thickness of the pencil from lively and expansive in the tendrils of the foreground plants to evanescent fineness in the most distant hilltops, including that of the hamlet of Olevano. He uses touches of black chalk in the foreground to make it pop, while seamless, soft graphite shading of the more distant hills creates a sense of sunlight and shadow playing across the landscape.

Titles:

View from Civitella, near Olevano (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

View Towards the Civitella (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1866

Creator Display:

Victor Paul Mohn (German painter and draftsman, 1842 - 1911) [preferred,JPGM]

draftsman Mohn, Paul (German painter and draftsman, 1842-1911) [500056180]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2009.69

Other: Creation: Italia [1000080] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Graphite and black chalk

	graphite (mineral) [300011098]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, mineral)

Dimensions: 26.4 x 41.3 cm (10 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	landscape (representation) [300015636]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)

	Olevano [7006961]
	.....(Roma province (province), Lazio (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	panorama (visual work) [300015537]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by form>, <visual works by form of image>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Inscribed by the artist in graphite in the lower right Civitella.d.10.Octbr. 66/ VMP in ligature, V.P. Mohn./ Die beleuchteten Stellen auf dem abfälligen Terrain sind frisch grüne Matten / die schattigen Terrains sind sehr warm bräunlich! / muro rosso ist zu wenig beleuchtet. /Die Ginsterbüsche sind sehr saftig grün, die [Castereken?] sehr herbstlich, die Früchte sehr hellgelbgrün / die Steine gelbich grau, die [Eichenbüsche ?] graugrün. / Rocca Canterana Canterana Canteranella - Cervara./ S. Stefano. Inscribed on the verso in graphite V.P. Mohn and z5764 V.P. Mohn zms x ss by Wolfgang Ratjen in lower left; lower right D30564 in graphite and 70 in purple ink; 6192/ in graphite at center.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
View from Civitella, near Olevano	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
View Towards the Civitella	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM,VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)