The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
The Brothers Eberhard
1822
(German, 1790–1866)
Sheet: 32.1 x 34.7 cm (12 5/8 x 13 11/16 in.); Image: 31.7 x 34.2 cm (12 1/2 x 13 7/16 in.)
Catalogue raisonné: Dussler 1, Winkler 1975, no 648.2
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
This lithograph was printed in only a few impressions, as a gift for the sitters.Description
Johann Anton Ramboux belonged to a group of artists called the Nazarenes, who lived a pious lifestyle and emulated the draftsmanship of early masters such as Albrecht Dürer. This print demonstrates their interest in drawing through Ramboux’s careful modeling of two profiles in light and shade. The sitters were brothers and artists who worked in the same circle as Ramboux. He made the lithograph for the Eberhards as a Freundschaftsbild (friendship portrait)—a type of image given between 19th-century artists to commemorate a relationship.- Heinrich Kaspar Lempertz Sr., Cologne (Lugt 1337)
- Marchetti, Elena, and Stéphane Paccoud. Hippolyte, Paul, Auguste: lLs Flandrin, Artistes et Frères. [Lyon]: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; [Paris]: In Fine, 2021. Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 22, fig. 4
- A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-September 22, 2019).
- {{cite web|title=The Brothers Eberhard|url=false|author=Johann Anton Ramboux|year=1822|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2002.63