Vue d'un pont sur l'Aar, Canton de Berne (View of a Bridge on the Aar, Berne), 1785

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series Title

Vues Remarquables des Montagnes de la Suisse dessinés et colorées d'apres Nature, avec leur Descriptions

Medium

etching, aquatint, and wash manner, printed in color on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 44.5 × 31.6 cm (17 1/2 × 12 7/16 in.)

sheet: 48.1 × 33 cm (18 15/16 × 13 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF (1700): undesc.

Accession Number

2019.26.1

Artists / Makers

Charles-Melchior Descourtis (artist) French, 1753 - 1820

Friedrich Rosenberg (artist after) German, 1758 - 1833

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Rosenberg pinxit; lower right in plate: Descourtis sculp.; lower center in plate: BUE D'UN PONT SUR L'AAR / Canton de Berne / Dediée à Madame Marie Frederique / Comtesse de Heiden, née Baronne de Reede / Par son très humble et très Obeissant Serviteur R. Hentzi; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 34; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 33/042 / 180574

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

Bibliography

1930: IFF (1700) undesc.