print
- Museum number
- 1927,0518.100
- Title
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Object: Sacrifice au Dieu Pan (Sacrifice to Pan)
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Series: Tableaux en gouache, demi-gouache et dessins au lavis de Salomon Gessner, gravées à l'eauforte par W. Kolbe
- Description
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Two women approaching a herm of Pan to right; next to it, a nude boy playing the flute; view of a garden with a fountain to left; after Salomon Gessner. 1805
Etching
- Production date
- 1805
- Dimensions
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Height: 244 millimetres
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Width: 324 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Label for P&D Friends' Evening:
This print was made after the drawing 2008,7049.1. It was part of a commission by Gessner`s heirs to publish the artist`s idyllic gouache landscapes. Kolbe moved from Dessau to Zurich and stayed with Gessner`s family from 1805-7 while he undertook the work. The inscription states that the drawing was at that time in the possession of Mr le Ministre Veith of Andelfingen. The department has a further impression of the etching in the publication: 'Collection des tableaux en gouache et des dessins de Salomon Gessner' gravés à l'eau-forte par Guil. Kolbe, Zurich 1811.'
For more information on the series of prints made by Kolbe after Gessner, see Griffiths and Carey, 'German Printmaking in the Age of Goethe', 1994, p.120, no. 74. A bound volume of the 1811 edition of the entire series is kept in 243 (top shelf).
Lit: A. Schultz, '"Trees have turned me into an artist'': The graphic work of Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759-1835)' in G. Bartrum (ed.), exhib.cat., BM, London, 'German Romantic prints and drawings from an English private collection', 2011, p.181, fig.53.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1927
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1927,0518.100