Print Description
Original master print, titled: ‘Le Soir’. It shows an idyllic scene in the countryside near a river. A group of 5 sheperds (three female, two male) is playing music while two children are dancing. Several goats are resting nearby. A second flock (of sheep) is crossing a stone bridge with two sheperds in the background.
Made by Carl Wilhelm I Kolbe after Salomon Gessner.
Medium: engraving / etching on wove paper.
Sheet size: 53 x 43 cm (20.87 x 16.93 inch). Image size: 46.5 x 36.5 cm. (18.31 x 14.37 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.
REST-MUSIC-RIVER-FOREST-CHILDREN-DANCING | DP-B1-38
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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