Self-Portrait with Country Folk from Appenzell, 1798

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Medium

graphite with gray wash on laid paper, squared for transfer and mounted on an old album sheet

Dimensions

sheet: 29.5 x 41.5 cm (11 5/8 x 16 5/16 in.)
overall (album sheet): 40.9 x 53.7 cm (16 1/8 x 21 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2007.51.1

Artists / Makers

Tiberius Dominikus Wocher (artist) Swiss, 1728 - 1799

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in graphite: 36; lower center in graphite: T. Wocher 1798; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Appenzeller Land[not deciphered] / [not deciphered] Wocher / [not deciphered] XF...Selbstportrait.../ [not deciphered] 1904 [not deciphered]

Provenance

Ignaz Dornach, Weiler bei Lindau (not in Lugt). (Joseph Fach, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Dornach, Ignaz
Galerie Joseph Fach GmBH