ID: 700008185 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008185	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Via Appia Antica with the Tomb of Cecilia Metella (drawing (visual work); Ernst Fries (German painter and engraver, 1801 - 1833) ; 1824; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2009.62)

Note: At once evocative and descriptive, the drawing records Ernst Fries's encounter with one of the most beloved monuments of the Via Appia. His fine and detailed treatment of the tomb of Cecilia Metella, along with his color annotations, indicates that Fries's primary interest was in the physical form of the monument and the landscape that contained it. Using his characteristically generous approach to the drawing's reserve, Fries set the monument at the far left margin of the sheet, leaving the upper and lower registers largely free of line and indicating with increasing abstraction the structures and natural features of the surrounding landscape. The result is a haunting representation of a funerary tomb, a bulwark against the losses of history that commands the idyllic horizon against which it is set. Despite his relatively early death, Fries was prolific, especially in the art of drawing. He began his training in his native Heidelberg at the age of nine in drawing lessons with friends Carl Philipp Fohr and Carl Rottmann. He continued his studies in Karlsruhe, Munich, and Darmstadt, and eventually travelled to Italy in 1823. While in Rome in 1824-the date of the proposed drawing-Fries was mentored by Joseph Anton Koch. Until 1827 Fries remained in Italy, drawing and painting while benefitting from the company of fellow artists Ludwig Richter, Edouard Bertin and Camille Corot. Even after his return to Germany, the image of an ideal Italian landscape dominated Fries's art.

Titles:

Via Appia Antica with the Tomb of Cecilia Metella (preferred,C,U,English-P,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: 1824

Creator Display:

Ernst Fries (German painter and engraver, 1801 - 1833) [preferred,JPGM]

draftsman Fries, Ernst (German painter and engraver, 1801-1833) [500002805]

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: 2009.62

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

Display Materials: Graphite

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

Dimensions: 29.3 x 42 cm (11 9/16 x 16 9/16 in.)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Via Appia [6006324]
	.....(Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	Tomb of Caecilia Metella [700002944]
	.....(Tomb of Caecilia Metella [700002944], Built Works by class: religious, ceremonial, and funerary structures [700009563], Built Works [700000001]) (CONA)

Inscriptions: Inscribed, lower left, in pencil: der Travertin weiss mit viel gelb, besonders das Fries. Mauerwerk grau, u. wo es dunkel röthlicher

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Via Appia Antica with the Tomb of Cecilia Metella	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

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

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