Eros with Three Girls at a Fountain
Salomon Gessner
1770
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 14.9 x 18.6 cm (5 7/8 x 7 5/16 in.) sheet: 27.4 x 38.4 cm (10 13/16 x 15 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1999.100.8
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...