Vue d'une partie du Couvent de st. Cosimato

Reference: S9784
Author Balthasar Anton DUNKER
Year: 1780
Zone: Vicovaro
Printed: Rome
Measures: 450 x 365 mm
€250.00

Reference: S9784
Author Balthasar Anton DUNKER
Year: 1780
Zone: Vicovaro
Printed: Rome
Measures: 450 x 365 mm
€250.00

Description

Acquaforte e bulino, 1780 circa, da un dipinto a gouche di Jacob Philip Hackert, datato 1780.

L'opera è edita dal fratello di Hackert, Georg Abraham, che aveva una bottega calcografica in Roma a Piazza di Spagna.

Magnifica prova, impressa su carta vergata cova, rifilata al rame, in ottimo stato di conservazione.

Balthasar Anton DUNKER (Halle 1746- Berna 1807)

Draughtsman and engraver. b. Saal near Stralsund in Swedish Pomerania. Pupil of Jacob Philipp Hackert, who took him to Paris in 1765, where he was in the circle of Wille and Huquier. While there his parents became bankrupt, and he had to pay his way by selling his drawings and paintings, later taking up etching. 1772 to Basel to work in Mechel studio; to Bern 1773, where began by working for Aberli before setting up for himself. Friend on Freudenberger. Married in 1775, and in 1777 given citizenship in Bern.

Balthasar Anton DUNKER (Halle 1746- Berna 1807)

Draughtsman and engraver. b. Saal near Stralsund in Swedish Pomerania. Pupil of Jacob Philipp Hackert, who took him to Paris in 1765, where he was in the circle of Wille and Huquier. While there his parents became bankrupt, and he had to pay his way by selling his drawings and paintings, later taking up etching. 1772 to Basel to work in Mechel studio; to Bern 1773, where began by working for Aberli before setting up for himself. Friend on Freudenberger. Married in 1775, and in 1777 given citizenship in Bern.