Oeuvres de Salomon Gessner (Tome I)

1786-1793

Salomon Gessner

Author, Swiss, 1730 - 1788

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier I

Artist, French, 1738 - 1826

François Alix

Engraver, French, 1753 - 1794

Jean-Louis Delignon

Engraver, French, 1755 - c. 1804

Charles-Etienne Gaucher

Engraver, French, 1741 - 1804

François Godefroy

Engraver, French, 1743 - 1819

Louis-Michel Halbou

Engraver, French, 1730 - probably 1809

C. Lépine

Engraver, French, died 1808

Joseph de Longueil

Engraver, French, 1730 - 1792

Nicolas Ponce

Engraver, French, 1746 - 1831

Jean Louis Charles Pauquet

Engraver, French, 1759 - c. 1824

G. Texier

Engraver, French, born 1750

N. Thomas

Engraver, French, c. 1750 - 1812

Philippe Triere

Engraver, French, 1756 - c. 1815

Michel Huber

Translator, 1727 - 1804

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume (first of three) with etched and engraved illustrations: 1 title page, 1 frontispiece, 31 plates, 31 tailpieces, and 2 headpieces

  • Credit Line

    Katharine Shepard Fund

  • Dimensions

    page size: 28.4 x 21.2 cm (11 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 29.2 x 21.9 cm (11 1/2 x 8 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.74.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cohen 1912, no. 433-434

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Wolfgang J. Kaiser, Kaiser am Main); purchased 2002 by NGA

Associated Names

Bibliography

1912

  • Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures de XVIIIe siecle. 6th edition revised and enlarged by Seymour de Ricci. Paris: Librairie A. Rouquette, 1912: 433-434.

1982

  • Ray, Gordon N. The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 1700 to 1914. 2 vols. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library; and Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1982: 1:77-79, no. 39.


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