Title
CHU_TE DE LA TRITT Pres les Fonderies de Fer a Oberhasli : De_die_ a_ Monsieur le Chevalier Pierre Premier Peintre du Roi &c Directeur de son Acade_mie de Peinture, Sculpture &c Par son tre_s humble et tre_s obe_issant serviteur Wagner. / C. Wolf pinxit ; f. Janinet Sculpsit ; Grave_ sous la direction de Mr VERNET Peintre du Roi et Conseiller de son Accade_mie Royalle de Peinture et Sculpture.
Creator
Janinet, Jean-Franc_ois, 1752-1814, printmaker.
Publication details
[Paris] : Se vend a_ Paris chez Wagner Place Maubert Ho_tel de la Limace vis a_ vis la rue des 3 Portes A.P.D.R., [between 1776 and 1782]
Physical details
1 print : hand-coloured aquatint and etching ; sheet 39.8 x 22.5 cm, on support 51.7 x 41 cm.
Description
An artist seen from behind sits on a rock by a river sketching the view before him in the foreground, with figures crossing a wooden bridge beyond and four men holding hooks at the top of the waterfall in the background.
Place
Haslital (Switzerland)
Additional information
Bound in a volume with title-page, preface by Albrecht von Haller, introduction, explanation of the plates (7 pages of text), frontispiece with Henzi's dedication to the King hand-written on the mount, and nineteen hand-coloured views framed by blac k lines and pasted on blue gilded mounts. The plates relate to a work first commissioned by publisher Abraham Wagner with text by Jacob Samuel Wyttenbach in about 1776. The project, consisting of forty-two plates, was interrupted by Wagner's death in 1782 and continued in 1785 by Henzi and Yntema (see B. Wismer et al., Caspar Wolf. Gipfelstu_rmer Zwischen Aufkla_rung und Romantik, exh. cat., Du_sseldorf, 2009, pp. 36-61). The original painting by Wolf entitled 'Trittlibachfall (Gental) Berner Oberland. Untersicht auf den zweigeteilten Fall des Trittbaches, Regenbogen in der Gischt', is currently in the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zu_rich (see Wismer, op. cit., cat. no. 57, pp. 95, 180 and W. Raeber, Caspar Wolf 1735-1783. Sein Leben und Sein Werk, Frankfurt a.M., Salzburg and Munich, 1979, cat. no. 252). Dedication contains coat of arms of Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre.
Other persons
Wolf, Caspar, 1735-1783, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 8.Tab.c.6.