Print Description
The scene captures a poignant interaction between two artists and a woman. The men are depicted with tools in hand, sketchbooks or tablets, in the process of capturing the woman’s likeness or essence. The woman, seated in a contemplative pose, embodying the role of a muse.
Made by Rudolf Fussli after own design.
Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 13 x 8 cm (5.12 x 3.15 inch). Image size: 8.5 x 4.5 cm. (3.35 x 1.77 inch).
Condition: good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
ARTISTS-MUSE-AUDIENCE-MODEL | PCO-C43-4
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Source: unknown, to be determined.
Biography engraver: Rudolf Fussli (also Hans-Rudolf, Johann Rudolf, Fuessli; 1709-1793, both in Zurich) was a Swiss painter, art historian and lexicographer. Johann Rudolf Fussli was a son of the mayor Heinrich Fussli and his wife Dorothea, nee Grebel. He was first apprenticed to the painter Johann Melchior Fussli in Zurich and then to Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg the Elder in Paris. From 1744 to 1746 he created the “New Year’s Eve sheets of the Zurich fireworks society”. Fussli dealt intensively with art history and published in 1763 for the first time the Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexicon. In 1779 appeared a new edition with a list of portraits of listed artists.
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