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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2022.229.2
People
Johann Phillip Koch, German (c. 1716 - 1796)
After Johann Esaias Nilson, German (Augsburg 1721 - 1788 Augsburg)
Title
Spring
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le Printemps
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1752-1755
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/375645

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Mezzotint on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Mezzotint
Dimensions
plate: 25.1 × 36.5 cm (9 7/8 × 14 3/8 in.)
sheet: 28 × 39 cm (11 × 15 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, in plate: Un beau bouquet de fleurs me fait un grand plaisir, / Et je de tout mon coeur à mon amant le donne. / Ah! quand à mon coté, pour me bien diverstir, / Il conte ses amours, alors je le couronne. / [illegible text] Nilson inv. et del. N.o 129.
  • inscription: in plate, lower center: Le Printemps. / Der Frühling.
  • inscription: lower right, in plate: Der Blumen bunter Schuck macht ungemein vergnugt, / Wen sich ein schönes Kind an selbigen ergözet, / Und es, wen Coridon an seiner seite light, / Durch winen Liebes-Trieb ihm einen Kranz auf'sczet. / Ioh. Phil. Koch. excud. A.V.
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: SB 2887

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Simon Beattie, Chesham], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2022

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2022
Object Number
2022.229.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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