MARIA KATHARINA PRESTEL (AFTER BELANGER)
A View of the Loss of the Rhone (Vue de la Perte du Rhone).
Color aquatint and etching with hand coloring in watercolor, 1791. 550x705 mm; 21¾x28 inches, wide margins. A superb, richly-inked impression of this large, scarce etching with strong colors.Prestel (1747-1794) was born in Nuremberg where she apprenticed with the artist Johann Gottlieb Prestel. She married Prestel in 1769 but the couple separated in 1786, after which she moved to London with her daughter. Prestel worked in London for the publisher John Boydell and had a successful career as a printmaker, creating more than seventy prints after paintings by German, Italian and Dutch artists. She was celebrated for her large aquatint prints, like the current work, in which she skillfully replicated subtle details of romanticized landscape paintings. Nagler 61; Le Blanc 61; Schwaighofer 3.With--PHILIBERT-LOUIS DEBUCOURT. Paysage, effet de neige, color aquatint and etching with hand coloring in watercolor, 1811. 292x393 mm; 11¾x15½ inches, wide margins. A very good impression of this scarce etching.