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Pietro  Antonio  Conte  Rotari

Verona 1707 – St. Petersburg 1762

Mischievous. The lover coming through the door and tickling the cheek of the girl sleeping on the chair with a book in her hand with a feather. Steel engraving by Albert Henry Payne (London 1812 – Leipsic 1902). C. 1845. 17.3 x 12.5 cm.
Offer no. 14,289 / EUR  46. (c. US$ 74.) + shipping

Pompeo  Girolama  Batoni

Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787

Magdalen. Lying before rocky scenery and reading in a book. The hair open, one breast denuded. The book supported by a skull. Between the teeth of this the ear of some grass as symbol of hope. Steel engraving by William French (c. 1815 – East Grinstead 1898). 3^rd quarter of the 19^th century. 14.7 x 18 cm.
Offer no. 14,182 / EUR  60. (c. US$ 97.) + shipping

– The same, but in steel engraving by D. J. Pound (England about 1859/60). 3^rd quarter of the 19^th century. 14.6 x 18.3 cm.
Offer no. 14,183 / EUR  60. (c. US$ 97.) + shipping

Christian  Wilhelm  Ernst  Dietrich,
called  Dietricy

Weimar 1712 – Dresden 1774

The Flight into Egypt. Holding the child on her lap. On left between some rocks Joseph looking back. Steel engraving by Albert Henry Payne (London 1812 – Leipsic 1902). C. 1845. 19.2 x 12.7 cm.
Offer no. 14,238 / EUR  50. (c. US$ 81.) + shipping

The Nymphs. Numerous group, more or less dressed, at a small pond below rocks, accompanied by putti and goats and sheep. On the left a little waterfall. Steel engraving by Alboth. 3^rd quarter of the 19^th century. 15.5 x 17.6 cm.
Offer no. 14,198 / EUR  43. (c. US$ 69.) + shipping

Joseph  Sifrède  Duplessis

Carpentras 1725 – Versailles 1802

Gluck. Playing on a spinet. Steel engraving by Walther. 3^rd quarter of the 19^th century. 17.7 x 13.8 cm.

Praised by Nagler as “one of the best French portrait painters” the Gluck portrait itself counting to Duplessis’ best paintings.
Offer no. 8,650 / EUR  50. (c. US$ 81.) + shipping

Daniel  Chodowiecki

Danzig 1726 – Berlin 1801

Blind-Man’s Buff. A gentleman together with a lady amidst a numerous party in a manorial garden below of ancient stature. On the right poplar walk, on the left the house. Steel engraving by Albert Henry Payne (London 1812 – Leipsic 1902). Ca. 1845. 17.7 x 20.2 cm.

The  larger-sized  very  charming  sujet  of  1768  in  the  succession  of  Watteau

after the lost painting in Berlin (Bernhard, Verlorene Werke der Malerei, p. 15).
Offer no. 14,525 / EUR  86. (c. US$ 139.) + shipping

Anton  Raphael  Mengs

Aussig 1728 – Rome 1779

Cupid. Sharpening an arrow-head. Steel engraving by Hall. 3^rd quarter of the 19^th century. 18.5 x 13.3 cm.
Offer no. 14,240 / EUR  40. (c. US$ 65.) + shipping

Angelica  Kauffmann

Chur 1741 – Rome 1807

Angelica Kauffmann. In her hair tendrils of vine. Half length portrait in the oval, the corners filled with ornaments. Steel engraving by William French (c. 1815 – East Grinstead 1898). 3^rd quarter of the 19^th century. 17.4 x 12.5 cm.
Offer no. 14,281 / EUR  46. (c. US$ 74.) + shipping

Christ at the Well. With the all ears Samaritan woman. Steel engraving by Merkel. 3^rd quarter of the 19^th century. 14.8 x 16.5 cm.
Offer no. 14,256 / EUR  50. (c. US$ 81.) + shipping

Thomas  Stothard

1755 London 1834

The Bathers. Seven graces bathing in a mountain rivulet in rich landscape. Coloured steel engraving by Charles Cousen (Yorkshire c. 1819 – 1889). 21 x 24.3 cm.

Brilliant in romance and colours. – Stothard “belongs to the minds who soared up from the depth to fame … In view of the strictness of style his drawings … (belong) to the best achievements of the English school” (Nagler). – See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,542 / EUR  189. (c. US$ 305.) + shipping

Christian  Lebrecht  Vogel

1759 Dresden 1816

The Brothers. The two sons of the artist – one the later Royal Saxon Court Painter Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein – sitting in a niche of the house and reading in a picture-spelling-book. Steel engraving by William French (c. 1815 – East Grinstead 1898). C. 1840. 15.1 x 16,8 cm.

Vogel’s presumably most famous painting, worked during the years in Wildenfels whereto he was appointed by Count Solms in 1780. Painted in several versions the one here most likely engraved after the latest which the King of Saxony purchased for the Gallery in Dresden.
Offer no. 11,882 / EUR  46. (c. US$ 74.) + shipping

John  Burton

before 1769 – London 1830

(The Bed in the Wood.) Young woman bedding the suckling on herbs in thick underwood. Steel engraving by Albert Henry Payne (London 1812 – Leipsic 1902). C. 1845. 18.2 x 11.1 cm.
Offer no. 14,227 / EUR  46. (c. US$ 74.) + shipping

Alexander  Chisholm

Elgin c. 1792/3 – Rothesay 1847

Saturday Night. The mother bathing the little son she still holds on her lap to check the water the somewhat elder daughter pours into the bowl. Steel engraving. C. 1850. 19.5 x 13.3 cm.

Main work of  Chisholm  (Thieme-Becker) of 1837. – Bathing scenes of this kind are quite rare.
Offer no. 5,996 / EUR  50. (c. US$ 81.) + shipping

Jean  Baptiste  Madou

1796 Brussels 1877

The Strolling Artist. Amongst the relatives and acquaintances the representative of the starving faculty portraits the farmer fallen asleep after the sumptuous meal. Steel engraving by A. Carse. C. 1840. Inscribed: Madou pinx^t / A. Carse sc., otherwise in German as above. 16.5 x 19.5 cm.
Offer no. 3,885 / EUR  68. (c. US$ 110.) + shipping

Felix  Cottrau  (Cottreau)

1799 Paris 1852

Dutch Skaters. Young Dutch(wo)men on the ice. Steel engraving by Albert Henry Payne (London 1812 – Leipsic 1902). C. 1845. 17.2 x 11.4 cm.
Offer no. 6,802 / EUR  50. (c. US$ 81.) + shipping

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„ Danke für den wunderbaren (Ridinger-)Scan … der meine Argumentation zur Verwechslung in der Staffierung der Porzellane dokumentarisch bestens belegt. Darf ich um Ihre Zustimmung bitten, ihn in meiner Arbeit zeigen zu dürfen? “

(Herr J. R., 7. Juni 2004)