Print Description
Original antique master print, titled: ‘Le Concert Champetre’. It shows an idyllic forest scene of three seated figures near a pond. One is playing a lyre, another a flute. The third figure is listening while leaning on a basket of fruit.
Made by Carl Wilhelm I Kolbe after Salomon Gessner.
Medium: engraving / etching on wove paper.
Sheet size: 43 x 53.5 cm (16.93 x 21.06 inch). Image size: 37.5 x 46.5 cm. (14.76 x 18.31 inch).
Condition: excellent, given age. Very nice dark impressionVery nice dark impression. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
LYRE-FLUTE-BASKET-FRUIT-POND | DP-B1-36
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Original antique master print, published in 1805. Our definition of a Master Print is a seperately published print or series of prints, not being an illustrative print to a text. These can both be prints made by old masters (artists) or prints made by others (artists, engravers, etchers) after old masters. Artists and Engravers: Engraved by Kolbe after a painting by Gessner.
Biography engraver: Carl Wilhelm I Kolbe (1757-1835) was a German painter, graphic artist and author.
Biography artist: Salomon Gessner (1730-1788) was a Swiss painter/poet. As a painter he represented the conventional classical landscape.
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