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- Salomon Gessner
1730–1788
born: Zurich, Switzerland ; died: Zurich, Switzerland
- Les Deux Amis de Bourbonne, 1773
- Contes moraux et nouvelles idylles (Moral Tales and New Idylls)
- Where object was made: Switzerland
- etching, hand-touched with white lead, on tinted paper
- Paper Type: blue-tinted wove on cream laid
- Image Dimensions Height/Width: 166 x 126 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions: 266 x 197 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width: 6 9/16 x 4 15/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 in
Mat Dimensions: 14 x 11 in - Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
- Not on display
- 2009.0172.01
- Salomon Gessner
- Open page with bookmarkable url
- Description
- Inscriptions/Signature
- Catalogue raisonné
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A group of figures are arranged dramatically outside a small cottage in a densely wooded landscape. To the right, a man in knee breeches and a frock coat sits on the ground with his legs outstretched, clasping his hands to his breast and looking away from the center of the composition. At left, a woman reaches toward him over the body of a dead or unconscious man. Two young boys echo her gesture and a small girl cowers and covers her face. The image is printed on blue-tinted paper that has been closely trimmed and applied to cream laid paper within a printed frame.