Arcadian Landscape with an Obelisk
Salomon Gessner
1785
Medium
gouache on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 28.1 x 38.8 cm (11 1/16 x 15 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rudolf and Lore Heinemann Fund
Accession Number
2002.67.1
About the Artist
Salomon Gessner · 1730–1788
Salomon Gessner was born in Zurich in 1730 into a family of printers and publishers, an upbringing that placed books, images, and ideas at the center of his world from an early age. Though largely self-taught as a visual artist, he received some instruction during a period in Berlin, where he encountered the German Rococo tradition, and his mature work reflects a deep absorption in the pastoral li...