Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, “Le Bosquet”, 1811, after Salomon Gessner

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

“Le Bosquet” (aka “The Grove”; “The Forest”; “Wooded Landscape with Dancing Nymph and Satyr”), 1811, after a gouache painting by Salomon Gessner (1730–1788). I understand that the print is from a series of twenty-five engravings with etching 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/200475172).

Etching on wove paper with wide margins as published.

Size: (sheet) 59.8 x 43.1 cm; (platemark) 46.9 x 37.9 cm; (image borderline) 40 x 30 cm.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “Peint par Salomon Gessner.”; (centre) “LE BOSQUET/ tableau en gouache tire du cabinet de Madame Usteri née Lavater à Zuric.”; (right) “Gravé par Guil. Kolbe.”

State iii (of iii)

Martens 296 (Ulf Martens 1978, “Der Zeichner und Radierer Carl Wilhelm Kolbe”, Berlin, Gebr. Mann, cat. no. 296).

See also the descriptions of this print offered by the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1994-1106-1-14.

Condition: a richly inked, near-flawless impression with generously wide margins. Aside from a few minor margin marks and pale foxing to the extremities, the sheet is in an excellent condition for its large size and age, free from any tears, holes, folds, or significant stains.

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