An Oak Forest with a Family of Travelers

Steiner employs cross‑hatching, a dense network of intersecting lines, to model form and convey atmospheric depth. The ink overlays a graphite sketch, allowing the artist to build tonal variation and texture, especially in the bark of the oaks and the dappled light filtering through foliage, achieving a realistic yet linear aesthetic.

Created circa 1820, the drawing is attributed to Steiner, a lesser‑known practitioner of early 19th‑century German drawing. It remains in a private collection, having passed through several European hands before being documented in recent scholarly catalogues of Romantic-era landscape studies.