Landscape with Two Trees, 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 18]

Medium

aquatint printed in gray and brown

Dimensions

mount: 48.7 × 33.4 cm (19 3/16 × 13 1/8 in.)

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 28 × 24 cm (11 × 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1948.11.276

Artists / Makers

Maria Catharina Prestel (artist) German, 1747 - 1794

Herman Saftleven (artist after) Dutch, 1609 - 1685

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Herman Saftleven. / Du Cabinet de Monsieur Jean Frederic Ettling à Francfort sur le Mein / M. Cath. Prestel sc.; in plate, below image, at right: No. 18 [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

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.