By Karl Bodmer
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original hand colored etching on cream laid paper by Swiss artist Karl Bodmer (1809-1893) titled "Peacocks on a Bough", c. 1860. Issued unsigned, though signed in the plate lower right. Edition size unknown, presumed small. Comes from the "Eaux-Fortes Animaux & Paysages" portfolio. Printed by Bertauts and published by Jules Géruzet both in Paris, France. Reference: Catalogue Raisonné: Beraldi II.140.33. There is an example of this work within the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY. This work is matted with 100% cotton rag mats and shrink-wrapped. All archival. Matted size: 16.75" x 13.5". Image size: 7.75" x 5.13". In mint condition.
Johann Carl Bodmer (11 February 1809 – 30 October 1893) was a printmaker, etcher, lithographer, zinc engraver, draughtsman, painter, illustrator and hunter. Known as Karl Bodmer in literature and paintings, as a Swiss and French citizen his name has been listed as Johann Karl Bodmer and Jean-Charles Bodmer respectively. After 1843, likely as a result of his son Charles-Henry Barbizon, he began to sign his works K Bodmer.
Karl Bodmer was well known in Germany for his watercolours, drawings and aquatints of cities and landscapes of the Rhine, Mosel and Lahn rivers. As a member of the Barbizon School - a French landscape painting group from the mid-19th century, he created many oil paintings with animal...
Category
1860s Romantic Karl Bodmer Art
MaterialsEtching, Watercolor