Gebirgslandschaft mit zwei lagernden Figuren 

Franz Kobell rendered this mountain landscape with two resting figures in ink on paper. The composition, dominated by earth tones, leads the eye through a series of carefully arranged visual planes. Note how the artist uses layering—foreground figures, middle-ground foliage, and distant hills. This creates depth, pulling us into the scene. Kobell's mastery of line and tone creates a sense of volume. The lines of the trees and foliage are not just outlines, they build form and texture. The two figures in the foreground invite us to contemplate our place within this ordered landscape. Such ordered scenes reflect the 18th-century's fascination with the sublime. Here, the artist constructs nature not as a wild, untamed force but as a carefully balanced composition. The landscape becomes a stage upon which we project our own sense of being, and is an echo of the period's philosophical interests in humanity's relationship to the natural world.