Apollo with a Bow and Dragon

1771

Salomon Gessner

Artist, Swiss, 1730 - 1788

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 21.9 x 16.4 cm (8 5/8 x 6 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.9 x 38.4 cm (11 x 15 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1999.100.12

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leemann-Van Elck 1930, no. 30


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1930

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

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: S. Gessner inv et f. 1771.; lower right: 8.; by later hand, upper right in graphite: (27/10p)

Wikidata ID

Q75430145


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