Youth playing a Lyre to a Maiden by a Fountain ('Schilfreiche Gegend an einem Brunnen')

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CARL WILHELM KOLBE (1759-1835)
Youth playing a Lyre to a Maiden by a Fountain ('Schilfreiche Gegend an einem Brunnen')
etching
1802-03
on firm wove paper, apparently without watermark
a very fine impression of this large and important print
printing with great definition, intense contrasts and luminous effects
with margins
pale scattered foxing
otherwise in good condition
Plate 411 x 531 mm.
Sheet 426 x 544 mm.

来源

Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg (Lugt 1949d); with their duplicate and de-accession stamp (not in Lugt).
Christopher Mendez (1943-2025), London; then by descent to present owners.

Literature

Martens 95; Jentsch 230
A. Griffiths & F. Carey, German Printmaking in the Age of Goethe, British Museum, 1994, no. 72, p. 118-9 (another impression ill.).
G. Bartrum (ed.), German Romantic Prints and Drawings from an English private Collection, London, 2011, no. 62, p. 204-5 (another impression ill.).
C. Melzer, Idyllisches Arkadien. Landschaftsradierungen von Carl Wilhelm Kolbe d.Ä., exh. cat., Bremen, Kupferstichkabinett der Kunsthalle Bremen, November 2013 - February 2014, no. 5, p. 34-5 (another impression ill.).

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拍品专文

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, the nephew of the great Polish-German etcher Daniel Chodowiecki (1728-1801), was one of the most original and prolific printmakers of the Romantic period.
The present print perfectly represents his style and his rather eccentric obsession with trees and plants - preferable ones with giant leaves. He said of himself that 'trees have turned me into an artist' (see: Bartrum, p. 172).

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