Dresden from the Banks of the Elbe River

1782

Adrian Zingg

Associated Names
Adrian Zingg

Artist, Swiss, 1734 - 1816

The image shows a riverside scene with a view of the riverbank and the city's old architectural structures in the distance. A bridge spans the river on the horizon, connecting both sides. Close by, people are on the riverbank engaged in various activities with boats docked nearby. The brushstrokes are precise, and the color palette is earthy and muted. The sky has clouds casting shadows in the scene.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kunsthandlung Peter H. Fichter, Frankfurt-am-Main), in 1996. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, 126-127, no. 37, under nos. 38 and 69.

Bibliography

2010

  • Weisheit-Possél, Sabine. "Adrian Zingg (1734-1816): Landschaftsgraphik zwischen Aufklärung und Romantik." Published dissertation (Freie Universität Berlin, 2008), LIT Verlag, Münster, 2010: 161, n. 74.

2015

  • Sale cat., Sotheby's, London. Old Master & British Drawings. 8 July 2015: 190, under no. 204

Inscriptions

signed and dated at bottom right in gray-black ink: A. Zingg del. Dresde 1782

Watermarks

Strasburg Bend and Lily

Wikidata ID

Q64533408

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