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Artists›Jacob Wilhelm Mechau

Jacob Wilhelm Mechau

1745

WA-00050629

Painting

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None documented

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70%

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Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ1677668

Field Verification (7 fields)

2 cross-verified · 5 single-source

Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
Birth yearArtsy· 92%✓
NationalityWikidata + Artsy· 92%
LocationArtsy + Wikidata· 85%
Death yearWikidata· 92%
Primary mediumWikidata· 92%
BiographyWikipedia· 88%

Source Registry (1)

Aichttps://www.artic.edu/artists/42296
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred95%

About

Why this artist matters now

Jacob Wilhelm Mechau was a German landscape painter and etcher whose work marked the transition from Classicism to Romanticism. Active in Leipzig during the late eighteenth century, he worked across painting, printmaking, and etching, developing a formal language that bridged the ordered compositions of the Classical tradition with the emotional intensity and naturalistic detail emerging in Romantic landscape practice.

Source: Aic · Trust score: 95% · Updated 9d ago

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Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art

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Artworks (5)

The Caves of Acradina near Syracuse in Sicily

1797 · Pen and brownish gray ink, brush and brownish gray wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and dark brown ink

sheet: 16 5/16 x 13 1/4 in. (41.5 x 33.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Tavern at Monte Testaccio

1793 · Etching

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Italiaans landschap met ossenwagen bij dorp

1792 · etching on paper

height: 105 cm, width: 127 cm

Rijksmuseum

Landscape

1785 · Watercolor, pen and ink over graphite; framing lines in pen and ink

10 5/8 x 14 in. (27 x 35.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ajax in the Grave

1785 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite

22 1/4 x 31 1/2 in. (56.5 x 80 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artwork sources (4)

5 published of 36 catalogued · 12 with image

The Met
4 published4 img
Rijksmuseum
1 published1 img
+ 2 more sources · 31 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

Italiaans landschap met ossenwagen bij dorp
1792 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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