Peasant Scene

1782-1785

Maria Catharina Prestel

Artist, German, 1747 - 1794

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    aquatint and etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1948.11.284

Associated Artworks

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Three Lansquenets

Maria Catharina Prestel

1780

Saint Barbara

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

1782

Head of a Woman

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

1782


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

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]

Wikidata ID

Q65080378


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