Villa Palatina

Inscriptions

signed, lower right, in gray ink: Hess fec. ; by artist, lower left, in gray ink: Romae 1830 ; [by artist?], lower center, in brown ink: Villa Palatina ; VERSO, upper center, in graphite: 39 x 32.5 [underlined] / 29 x 22.5 / 2 RIGHE

Provenance

[Sven H.A. Bruntjen]

Exhibition history

The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983). Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 12-September 9, 1984). The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993). Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004). Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).

Quick Overview

Artist: Peter Heinrich Lambert von Hess (German, 1792–1871)
Date: 1830
Medium: pen and black ink with faint traces of graphite; framing lines in black ink, with gray wash border
Dimensions: Sheet: 26.8 x 35.2 cm (10 9/16 x 13 7/8 in.); Image: 19.3 x 26 cm (7 5/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawing
Department: Drawings
Credit line: Delia E. Holden Fund
Accession no.: 1982.159

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.