Adrian Zingg

Laid down on card. There is some slight discolouration to the four edges of the sheet most probably due to an old mount. Otherwise the sheet is in very fine condition with the medium fresh throughout. Sold in a modern wood frame.
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Adrian Zingg studied with Johann Ludwig Aberli in Bern and Johann Georg Wille in Paris, before moving to Dresden in 1766. Together with his fellow Swiss, the portrait painter Anton Graff, he discovered and hiked in the Saxon and Bohemian landscape, documenting the varied sights along the way in a sketchbook dated to 1766 and now housed in Dresden.¹

The present work, a view of Dresden from the banks of the Elbe River, is very close in composition and viewpoint to a watercolour of the same subject by Zingg, previously in the collection of Wolfgang Ratjen and now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.²

1. P. Kuhlmann-Hodick et al, Adrian Zingg. Wegbereiter der Romantik, exhib.cat., Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, 2010, pp. 40-59
2. Inv. no. 2007.111.185