Landscape with Cottage on the Water

1760

Franz Edmund Weirotter

Associated Names
Franz Edmund Weirotter

Artist, Austrian, 1730 - 1771

The image shows a rustic scene with trees, a thatched cottage, and a distant building near a body of water. The artwork features fine lines to depict details, a monochromatic color palette of grey and black, and figures in a boat. There are cloud formations in the sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Katharine Shepard Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 15 × 15.3 cm (5 7/8 × 6 in.)
    mount: 17.4 × 17.5 cm (6 7/8 × 6 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2024.117.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Winterberg no. 57

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Princes of Liechtenstein, Vaduz; (Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased by NGA, 2024

Associated Names

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, in image, at bottom center: F. Weirotter [reversed]

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