Arcadian Landscape with an Obelisk

1785

Salomon Gessner

Artist, Swiss, 1730 - 1788

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gouache on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rudolf and Lore Heinemann Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 28.1 x 38.8 cm (11 1/16 x 15 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.67.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Prince Heinrich Reuss, Bad Köstritz. Hannelore Kettler, Frankfurt am Main, 1945. (David Tunick, New York); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

2002

  • Robison, Andrew. "Three Italianate Watercolors," National Gallery of Art Bulletin, no. 28, Fall, 2002, 6-7.

Inscriptions

lower left in brown gouache: S. Gessner 1785

Watermarks

WHATMAN

Wikidata ID

Q64630221

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