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Salomon Gessner

Girl Carrying a Basket of Fruit, 1770

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series Title

Idyllic Landscapes with Mythological Figures, plate 3

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 15.9 x 18.4 cm (6 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.)

sheet: 28 x 38.4 cm (11 x 15 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Leemann-Van Elck 1930, no. 25

Accession Number

1999.100.7

Artists / Makers

Salomon Gessner (artist) Swiss, 1730 - 1788

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Inscription

lower left in plate: S. Gessner inv. et f. 1770.; lower right in plate: 3.; by later hand, upper right in graphite: (27/10p)

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher

Bibliography

1930: Leemann-Van Elck, Paul. Salomon Gessner: Dichter, Maler und Radierer, 1730-1788. Zurich, 1930.

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