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Le Tombeau de Virgile prez de Naple. 1789.

Matthias Pfenninger

* 1739 in Zurich † 1813

Handcoloured etching with watercolours, heightened in white. Size of plate: 28.5 x 42 cm. Size of sheet: 30.2 x 44.1 cm.

Literature:     Brun Carl, Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon [SKL] / hrsg. mit Unterstützung des Bundes und kunstfreundlicher Privater vom schweizerischen Kunstverein; red. unter Mitw. von Fachgenossen von Carl Brun, Frauenfeld, Huber, 1905-1917, II, p. 544.

After a model by Swiss painter Michel Vincent Brandoin (1733 Vevey - 1807 Morges), belonging to physician and botanist Paul Usteri (1768 - Zurich - 1831).

Fine and rare impression with margins all around. Another handcoloured print from a bigger plate is in the Musée d’art et d’histoire of Geneva (Est 0984).

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