Fishermen Drawing Their Nets, 18th/19th century

  • Nicolaes Berchem, Dutch, 1620-1683
  • Christian Gottlieb Geyser, German, 1742-1803

Engraving printed in black on wove paper

  • plate: 15 1/8 x 19 7/8 in. 38.3 x 50.4 cm sheet: 22 3/8 x 27 3/4 in. 56.8 x 70.4 cm

Gift of Bela Hubbard, 1892

1991.80

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

In plate, lower left: Berghem pinx.; lower right: Geyser Senr. Scp.; lower left of the bottom margin: Quadro di Berghem / della Galleria Elettorale di Dresda / Alto piedi 2. oncie 1 3/4. Largo oncie 17 1/2.; lower right of the bottom margin: Tableau de Berghem / de la Gallerie Electorale de Dresde / Haut 2 pieds. 1 3/4. pouces. Large 17 1/2. pouces.; in brown ink, lower right below Geyser / b. 1742; in black ink after Berghem's name, lower right; lower center: Fishermen drawing their Nets.; lower right corner: Gift of Bela Hubbard / 1892.; in pencil, lower center and lower right corner: 33

Woermann, Karl, CATALOGUE OF THE ROYAL PICTURE GALLERY IN DRESDEN: Dresden: Wilhelm Hoffmann's Fine Art Works, 1899, p 320.

Christian Gottlieb Geyser; after Nicolaes Berchem, Fishermen Drawing Their Nets, 18th/19th century, Engraving printed in black on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Bela Hubbard, 1892, 1991.80.