Cartouches Modernes avec des Enfans qui representant les Modes d'Augsbourg

Johann Esaias Nilson

Associated Names
Johann Esaias Nilson

Artist, German, 1721 - 1788

This is a drawing of an ornate and decorative scene featuring intricate scrollwork and floral motifs. The composition showcases intricate scrolls and foliage framing two separate vignettes. On the left, an elegantly dressed couple is depicted within a sumptuous, draped frame. On the right, two children appear to play or share a moment together, encapsulated within ornate foliage and scrollwork. Each scene is interconnected through swirling, elaborate design around a central cartouche featuring decorative text.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching [counterproof] with drawing in pen and black ink and gray wash, on laid paper incised with grounding in red chalk for transfer on verso

  • Credit Line

    Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (cut within plate): 17.2 x 26.8 cm (6 3/4 x 10 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2000.89.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schuster 1936, no. 66, State [counterproof of proof state]

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's New York, 4 May 2000, no. 25); (C.G. Boerner, Inc., New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1936

  • Schuster, Marianne. Johann Esaias Nilson: ein Kupferstcher des süddeutschen Rokoko. Munich, 1936.

Inscriptions

upper left in brown ink: N VIII; upper center, in cartouche: Cartouches Modernes avec des Enfans qui representant les Modes d'Augsbourg (in reverse)

Wikidata ID

Q76346141

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