Saturday, July 17, 2021

Nazarene Drawings

Wilhelm von Schadow
Self Portrait
1805
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Wilhelm von Schadow
Head of a Woman
undated
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Johann Friedrich Overbeck
Académie
1808
drawing
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Portrait of Henriette Schnorr von Carolsfeld
1817
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Portrait of the painter
Johann Evangelist Scheffer von Leonhardshoff

1822
drawing
private collection

Franz Théobald Horny
Italian Landscape
before 1824
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Franz Théobald Horny
Self Portrait
1821
drawing
private collection

Johann David Passavant after Giovanni Cariani
Pietà
ca. 1820
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Marie Ellenrieder
Duchess Sophie von Baden and her Children
1834
drawing
private collection

Marie Ellenrieder
Portrait of painter Robert von Langer
1820
drawing
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Marie Ellenrieder
Portrait of a Young Woman
undated
drawing
private collection

Marie Ellenrieder
Portrait of a Young Man
undated
drawing
private collection

Joseph von Führich
God summons Noah and his Family into the Ark
ca. 1827
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Friedrich Olivier
The Good Shepherd
undated
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Friedrich Olivier
Portrait of Julius Olivier, the Artist's Son
1846
drawing, with watercolor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

"Certainly, the Nazarenes resubmitted art to the service of religion.  But they were also dedicated Romantics faithful to the notion that art must convey the subjective experience of the self."

– Cordula Grewe, from Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism (Ashgate, 2009)