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

Not on View

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

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

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

2000.89.3

Johann Esaias Nilson (artist) German, 1721 - 1788

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

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

Boerner LLC, C.G.

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