Two Shepherds in a Rocky Landscape

1764

Salomon Gessner

Artist, Swiss, 1730 - 1788

Salomon Gessner

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper tinted pale blue

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20.6 x 18.8 cm (8 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 29.5 x 25.9 cm (11 5/8 x 10 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1996.12.7

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leemann-Van Elck 1930, no. 7


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified collector (blind stamp, EM, Lugt 885); Prof. Dr. Richard Jung, probably Switzerland or Germany [1911-1986] (Lugt undescribed); (Lutz Riester), Switzerland; purchased 1996 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1930

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

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: S.Gessner inv et fec.; lower center in plate: 7.; by later hand, lower right in ink: A.

Wikidata ID

Q75396129


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