Maria Catharina Prestel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Colnaghi & Co.
A Wood Scene
1790
Scroll
Maria Catharina Prestel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Colnaghi & Co.
A Wood Scene
1790
Physical Qualities
Aquatint and etching, Sheet: 505 x 661 mm. (50.5 x 66.1 cm.)
Image: 461 x 630 mm. (46.1 x 63 cm.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.2399
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
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Schwaighofer, Claudia. "Das druckgraphische Werk der Maria Catharina Prestel (1747-1794)," thesis; Stuttgart, 2003 (available online)
Hüsgen, Henrich Sebastian. Artistisches Magazin, enthaltend das Leben und die Verzeichnisse der Werke hiesiger und anderer Künstler (Frankfurt am Main: J. Bayrhoffer, 1790): pp. 410-426. Andresen, Andreas, Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler, Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, 1870-1873.
Hüsgen, Henrich Sebastian. Artistisches Magazin, enthaltend das Leben und die Verzeichnisse der Werke hiesiger und anderer Künstler (Frankfurt am Main: J. Bayrhoffer, 1790): pp. 410-426. Andresen, Andreas, Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler, Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, 1870-1873.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "P.Brueghel pinxt."; below image, lower right, in plate "Mary Cath. Prestel sculpt."; below image, lower center, in plate "A WOOD SCENE"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "8868" Verso: center in graphite "18"; lower left in graphite "13225[crossed out] / 14355"; lower right in graphite "P. / Aquatint, - Mary Catherine Prestel."
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett