The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of October 3, 2023

View of the Castle Gnandstein

c. 1795

Adrian Zingg

(Swiss, 1734–1816)

Switzerland

Gray wash and black ink (applied with pen and point-of-brush) with brown ink and traces of graphite underdrawing

Support: Wove paper, tipped onto a contemporary album sheet

Sheet: 38.5 x 52.3 cm (15 3/16 x 20 9/16 in.); Mounted: 47.2 x 63.2 cm (18 9/16 x 24 7/8 in.)

Alma Kroeger Fund 2015.76

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Inscribed (verso), lower left, in graphite: "AR BRG / A. Zingg" Inscribed (mount), lower right, in graphite: "Zingg, Adrian / Ansicht des Schlosses / Gnandstein. / Feder u[nd] get[uscht]. 15 N."; lower right, in black ink: "Zingg, Adrian, Zeichner & Kupferstecher / gib 1734 zu St Gallen gest. 1816 zu Leipzig"

Provenance
Heinrich Wilhelm Campe, Leipzig (Lugt 1391); Dorotheum, Vienna, 4/2/2015 sale, lot 119; C. G. Boerner, NYC.
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2015.76