The Seven Planets, 1770

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 15.5 x 23.5 cm (6 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.)

sheet: 16.3 x 24.4 cm (6 7/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Nagler, no. 6

Accession Number

1999.98.16

Artists / Makers

Thomas Christian Winck (artist) German, 1738 - 1797

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in plate: 8. C.P S.C.M.; upper right in plate: C.P.R. T.; lower right in plate: Christian Winck inv et Sculp. 1770.; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: N. 6

Provenance

Wilhelm Soldan, Berlin, after 1950 (Lugt undescribed). (sale, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, 4-5 June 1999, no. 6043); (C. G. Boerner Inc., New York, 1999); purchased 1999 by NGA with funds contributed by The Ahmanson Foundation.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
David Carritt Limited, Artemis Group
Galerie Gerda Bassenge
Soldan, Wilhelm

Bibliography

1835: Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, no. 6.