Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, “Le Concert Champetre”, 1811, after Salomon Gessner

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (the elder) (1759–1835)

“Le Concert Champetre” (aka “The Country Concert”; “Wooded Landscape with Three Young Nymphs Near a Waterfall”), 1805–1811, after a gouache painting by Salomon Gessner (1730–1788). I understand that the print is from a series of twenty-five engravings by Carl Wilhelm Kolbe after drawings and gouaches by Salomon Gessner, initially printed and published by Heinrich Gessner (1768–1813) in Zurich in 1805 in the folio, “Tableaux en gouache, demi-gouache et dessins au lavis de Salomon Gessner”, and later published in 1811 in, “Collection des tableaux en gouache et des dessins de Salomon Gessner” (see https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200474585; see also the explanatory note by the Rijksmuseum regarding this print: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200475177).

Etching on wove paper with wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 57.4 x 41.6 cm; (platemark) 46.6 x 37.5 cm; (image borderline) 35.5 x 28.4 cm

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “Peint par Salomon Gessner.”; (centre) “LE CONCERT CHAMPETRE/ le tableau en gouache se trouve dans le cabinet de LA Gessner.”; (right) Gravé par Guil: Kolbe.”

State iii (of iii)

Martens 291 (Ulf Martens 1978, “Der Zeichner und Radierer Carl Wilhelm Kolbe”, Berlin, Gebr. Mann, cat. no. 291).

See also the descriptions of this print offered by Pictura Antique Prints and the British Museum (no image): https://pictura-prints.com/product/antique-master-print-lyre-flute-basket-fruit-pond-kolbe-gessner-1805/; https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1994-1106-1-11

Condition: a richly inked and well-printed (near faultless) impression with generously wide margins. The sheet is in an excellent/near pristine condition for its large size and age with no holes, folds or significant stains.

I am selling this superb impression of a large and very romantic etching showing an idyllic Arcadian scene with mythological figures making music with a lyre and flute beside a waterfall, for AU$318 (equivalent to approximately US$204.27, EUR 181.35, or GBP 152.63 at the time of listing) and includes Express Mail Service (EMS) postage and handling to any worldwide destination. Please note that any import duties or taxes levied by the destination country, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer and are not included in the purchase price. Payment is requested in Australian dollars (AU$318).

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