Johann Heinrich Ramberg
German, 1763-1840
Bearded Man Spying on Lovers Under an Arbor
INV-1536
Johann Heinrich Ramberg
German, 1763-18401795
Bearded Man Spying on Lovers Under an Arbor
Johann Heinrich Ramberg German, 1763-1840 →etchingprint
Date
1795
Medium
Etching on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 30.5 × 26.1 cm (12 1/16 × 10 5/16 in.); Plate: 30.5 × 28 cm (12 1/16 × 11 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.5 × 29.2 cm (12 13/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
The satirist Johann Heinrich Ramberg produced several oval etchings with voyeuristic themes, including an equally silly pendant to this print in which the man in the tree remains unobserved by the lovers, despite his extremely precarious position. The oval framework of these works suggests that the prints may have been meant as decoration for furniture or perhaps were intended to be pasted onto a support and used as fans.
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