Jan 25, 2006 - Sale 2064

Sale 2064 - Lot 260

Price Realized: $ 920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
SWISS SCHOOL, 18TH-CENTURY
An Arcadian Landscape with an Allegory of the Transcendence of Life.

Brush and ink and wash on cream laid paper. 391x538 mm; 151/2x211/4 inches. Sold at Sotheby's, London, November 6, 1981, lot 1 (as "Northern Italian School, 18th-Century").

An attribution to Solomon Gessner (1730-1788) has been suggested.