A Shepherd and a Young Woman With Their Feet in a Brook
1764
Artist, Swiss, 1730 - 1788

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper tinted pale blue
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 20.7 x 19 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
sheet: 29.5 x 26 cm (11 5/8 x 10 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1996.12.4
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Catalogue Raisonné
Leemann-Van Elck 1930, no. 4
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Unidentified collector (blind stamp, EM, Lugt 885); Prof. Dr. Richard Jung, probably Switzerland or Germany [1911-1986] (Lugt undescribed); (Lutz Riester), Switzerland; purchased 1996 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1930
Leemann-Van Elck, Paul. Salomon Gessner: Dichter, Maler und Radierer, 1730-1788. Zurich, 1930.
Inscriptions
lower right in plate: S.Gessner.; lower center in plate: 4.; by later hand, lower right in ink: A.
Wikidata ID
Q75396066