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The image depicts a forest scene with large trees dominating the right side, two figures seated by a stream, rocky formations on the left, grazing animals in the distance, and a monochrome color palette of brown and espresso tones.
National Gallery of Art · Print
A Shepherd and a Young Woman With Their Feet in a Brook
Salomon Gessner
- Date
- 1764
- Medium
- etching on laid paper tinted pale blue
- Dimensions
- plate: 20.7 x 19 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 29.5 x 26 cm (11 5/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 1996.12.4
- Credit line
- Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
- Time span
- 1751 to 1775
- Department
- CG-E
Portfolio and series
- Series
- X paysages dédiés à Mr. Watelet auteur du poème sur l'art de peindre (Ten Landscapes Dedicated to Mr. Watelet, Author of the Poem on the Art of Painting) [Lehmann-van Elck 1-10]
Subjects and terms
- etching
- occupation
- genre
- Landscape
- topographical
- landscape
- Swiss
- Shepherd
Provenance
Unidentified collector (blind stamp, EM, Lugt 885); Prof. Dr. Richard Jung, probably Switzerland or Germany [1911-1986] (Lugt undescribed); (Lutz Riester), Switzerland; purchased 1996 by NGA.
Inscription
lower right in plate: S.Gessner.; lower center in plate: 4.; by later hand, lower right in ink: A.
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