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A TROMPE-L'OEIL WITH SEVENTEEN DRAWINGS OF VIENNESE MONUMENTS

Creator: BALTHASAR WIGAND
Offered by: Arader Galleries

Description
Balthasar Wigand (1770-1846 )

A Trompe-L'oeil with Seventeen Drawings of Viennese Monuments

Pen and brown ink, bodycolor heightened with white on blue paper

Vienna, 1832

Signed, inscribed and dated "Wigand / Faden nur zu seinem lei / chentuche / sind die Studen die / der Mensch verlebt / MDCCCXXII (The hours that men live are like the threads to their shrouds).

Image size: 10 3/4 x 17 7/8"

Frame size: 21 x 24 3/4"

Views of Vienna by the Miniaturist, Balthasar Wigand
Each view spectacularly complements the others in coloring and composition to provide a harmonious and well constructed composition

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	18th Century
Styles / Movements:	Trompe l'oeil
Incollect Reference #:	594250

Dimensions

W.	24.75 in;	H.	21 in;
W.	62.87 cm;	H.	53.34 cm;

Message from Seller:

Founded in 1971, Arader Galleries is the world's leading dealer and auction house of Rare Maps, Prints, Rare Books and Watercolors of the 16th through 19th centuries. Over our forty-five year history we have grown to five magnificent locations in some of America’s most vibrant cities and are represented at the most distinguished antiques shows in the country. We are proud to buy and sell more original Audubon prints that any other firm in the United States.