Couple Seated in a Glade
Salomon Gessner
1764
Medium
Etching on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 20.7 × 19 cm (8 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 38.7 × 27.8 cm (15 1/4 × 11 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129442
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...