Oeuvre de Weirotter peintre Allemand, contenant près de 200 paysages dessinés d'après nature

1775

Pierre-François Basan

Publisher, French, 1723 - 1797

Franz Edmund Weirotter

Artist, Austrian, 1730 - 1771

Jacob Matthias Schmutzer

Artist, Austrian, 1733 - 1811

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with letterpress title page and 213 etchings and engravings on laid paper by Weirotter (17 after various artists, the remainder after his own drawings), and 1 portrait etching of the artist by Jacob Matthias Schmutzer

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal, Katharine Shepard, and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Funds

  • Dimensions

    book: 41.6 x 27.3 cm (16 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.)
    page size: 40 x 26 cm (15 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2004.93.1.1-214

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Winterberg 1998.

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Associated Artworks

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Large Farmhouse on Shore

Franz Edmund Weirotter, Pierre-François Basan

1763

By Docked Ships

Franz Edmund Weirotter, Pierre-François Basan

1762

Soldiers and Travelers Resting

Franz Edmund Weirotter, Pierre-François Basan

1761

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Hans Fürstenberg (1890-1982), Beaumesnil; Otto Schäfer (1912-2000), Schweinfurt, 1974; Sotheby's London, December 1995; (Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco, Turin); purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1880

  • Portalis/Beraldi 1880, 3: 653-656.

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: 1066.

1929

  • Fürstenberg, Hans. Das französische Buch im achtzehnten Jahrhundert und in der Empirezeit. Weimar, 1929: 67, 94.

1995

  • The Collection of Otto Schäfer, Part IV: the Hans Fürstenberg Collection of Eighteenth Century French Books. Sotheby's London, December 7-8, 1995: 11-15, no. 661.

1998

  • Winterberg, Thilo. _Franz Edmund Weirotter (1733-1771), der Landschaftsradierer: Das graphische Werk _. Heidelberg, 1998.

2004

  • Libreria antiquaria Pregliasco. Catologo n. 89, Turin, 2004, no. 77.

Inscriptions

on title page in letterpress text: OEUVRE / DE / F. E. WEÏROTTER, / PEINTRE ALLEMAND, / Mort à Vienne en 1771. / Contenant près de deux cent Paysages & / Ruines, dessinés d'après nature, tant en / France qu'un Italie, & gravés à l'eau-forte / avec beaucoup de goût, par lui-même. / A PARIS / Chez BASAN & POIGNANT, Marchands / d'Estampes, rue & Hôtel Serpente; on last free flyleaf in graphite upper left: (c.Freea) / Franz Weirotter (Innsbruck 1730 - / Vienna 1771; upper right: coll. Camfl. 25. Ritrelta, e210 [not deciphered] / stupendo esemplar de / Ex. libris Fürstenberg

Markings

on front free flyleaf, bookplate of Hans Fürstenberg [Ex Musaeo / Hans Fürstenberg]

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