Alexander de Grote bezoekt Diogenes, Karl Russ, c. 1807 - c. 1815

Title(s)

Alexander de Grote bezoekt Diogenes

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2012-43

Catalogue reference

• Nagler Künstlerlexikon 28
• Aantal staten bekend-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Artist

• print maker: Karl Russ
• after own design by: Karl Russ

Dating

c. 1807 - c. 1815

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 235 mm × width 301 mm

What

• Alexander's visit to Diogenes, who sits by his barrel and asks Alexander to get out of his light

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 13-Apr-2012

Copyright

Public domain

• German printmaking in the age of Goethe, Frances Carey (Art historian), P. 98, cat.nr. 54
• Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, G.K. Nagler, P. 81, cat.nr. 28
• Nicolaas Teeuwisse, Selected works Tefaf 2012, nr. 113 Nicolaas Teeuwisse, Selected works XII (2012), nr. 48