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CIRCLE OF JEAN-BAPTISTE WEYLER, CIRCA 1790
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CIRCLE OF JEAN-BAPTISTE WEYLER, CIRCA 1790

Salomon Gessner (1730-1788), in trimmed cloak, shirt and scarf tied loosely around the neck

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CIRCLE OF JEAN-BAPTISTE WEYLER, CIRCA 1790
Salomon Gessner (1730-1788), in trimmed cloak, shirt and scarf tied loosely around the neck
enamel en grisaille
oval, 4 in. (101 mm.) high, gold mount
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

Salomon Gessner (1730-1788), the Swiss pastoral poet also painted and engraved landscapes. He was born in Zurich where he was a book seller. His poem 'Tod Abels', a type of heroic prose poem, published in 1758, enjoyed the greatest success. The present miniature is inspired by an oil painting by Anton Graff (1781/2), illustrated in E. Berckenhagen, Anton Graff, Berlin, 1967, p. 145, no. 453.