Cattle Resting in a Grove with a Man Seated beside a Brook, 1764

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series Title

X paysages dédiés à Mr. Watelet auteur du poème sur l'art de peindre (Ten Landscapes Dedicated to Mr. Watelet, Author of the Poem on the Art of Painting) [Lehmann-van Elck 1-10]

Medium

etching on laid paper tinted pale blue

Dimensions

plate: 21.5 x 18.8 cm (8 7/16 x 7 3/8 in.)

sheet: 29.5 x 25.8 cm (11 5/8 x 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Leemann-Van Elck 1930, no. 6

Accession Number

1996.12.6

Artists / Makers

Salomon Gessner (artist) Swiss, 1730 - 1788

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: S.Gessner inv. et fec.; lower center in plate: 6.; by later hand, lower right in ink: A.

Provenance

Unidentified collector (blind stamp, EM, Lugt 885); Prof. Dr. Richard Jung, probably Switzerland or Germany [1911-1986] (Lugt undescribed); (Lutz Riester), Switzerland; purchased 1996 by NGA.

Associated Names

Lutz Reister

Bibliography

1930: Leemann-Van Elck, Paul. Salomon Gessner: Dichter, Maler und Radierer, 1730-1788. Zurich, 1930.