Peasant Scene, 1782-1785

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series Title

Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets) [plate 26]

Medium

aquatint and etching

Dimensions

mount: 33.3 × 48.4 cm (13 1/8 × 19 1/16 in.)

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 16.8 × 21.2 cm (6 5/8 × 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1948.11.284

Artists / Makers

Maria Catharina Prestel (artist) German, 1747 - 1794

Isack van Ostade (artist after) Dutch, 1621 - 1649

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, in image, lower right: M.C Prestel. sc.; below image, at right: No 26.; below image, at center: Dessin de Isaac Ostade. / Du Cabinet de Mr H. S. Hüsgen à Francfort.; below image, at left: H. S H. excud.;below image, at right: M. Cath. Prestel sc. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Provenance

(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius