Kneeling Pilgrim with Cross and Book

Prints and Drawings

1826

Johann Friedrich Overbeck
German, 1789–1869

Executed during Johann Friedrich Overbeck’s stay in Rome, Kneeling Pilgrim with Cross and Book provides the viewer with an insight into the artist’s spiritual conviction. Overbeck, a founding member of the Brotherhood of Saint Luke, or the Nazarene movement, viewed art as a way to regenerate religiosity in society. The Nazarenes showed their devotion to God by adapting the styles and ideas of the Renaissance. Overbeck’s sophisticated use of etching, exemplified by delicate cross-hatching and fine lines, produced an image that evokes religious depictions of the past, thus promoting traditional Christian sentiments to an increasingly materialistic society.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Johann Friedrich Overbeck
Title: Kneeling Pilgrim with Cross and Book
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1826
Medium: Etching on white wove paper
Dimensions: Plate: 11.3 × 7.5 cm (4 1/2 × 3 in.); Sheet: 14.2 × 10.2 cm (5 5/8 × 4 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.416
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