Johannes Riepenhausen
Johannes Riepenhausen belongs to the German Romantic generation of draughtsmen who turned to literary, religious and art-historical subjects, and his sheets here are executed in pen and black and brown ink, with framing lines drawn in graphite and in brush and gray wash. The archive holds a single work by him, The Death of Raphael, dated 1832, the year the Met assigns to the sheets in its care, though impressions may extend up to that point rather than marking the artist's own working span. Rendered in pen and ink drawing rather than print, it reflects the period's fascination with the passing of great artists and the Romantic imagination of the Renaissance. The example is modest in number but representative of his graphic approach.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
