Lot 210
210
A shepherd asleep in a cave, his flock lying in the foreground; A peasant family on a track mourning the collapse of their donkey; A still-life of game by a pair of oxen drawing a hay-cart, a mounted huntsman blowing a horn beyond; Paris and Helen; Women and children fleeing from a solar eclipse; A mother seated with an infant on her lap, two children by a table beyond; A European by the mast of a small boat crewed by Arabs, a smoking volcano beyond; A crowd listening to mandolin player, a volcano smoking in the distance; and Studies of the heads of Christ and two disciples

A shepherd asleep in a cave, his flock lying in the foreground; A peasant family on a track mourning the collapse of their donkey; A still-life of game by a pair of oxen drawing a hay-cart, a mounted huntsman blowing a horn beyond; Paris and Helen; Women and children fleeing from a solar eclipse; A mother seated with an infant on her lap, two children by a table beyond; A European by the mast of a small boat crewed by Arabs, a smoking volcano beyond; A crowd listening to mandolin player, a volcano smoking in the distance; and Studies of the heads of Christ and two disciples

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A shepherd asleep in a cave, his flock lying in the foreground; A peasant family on a track mourning the collapse of their donkey; A still-life of game by a pair of oxen drawing a hay-cart, a mounted huntsman blowing a horn beyond; Paris and Helen; Women and children fleeing from a solar eclipse; A mother seated with an infant on her lap, two children by a table beyond; A European by the mast of a small boat crewed by Arabs, a smoking volcano beyond; A crowd listening to mandolin player, a volcano smoking in the distance; and Studies of the heads of Christ and two disciples
inscribed and dated 'in der nacht von 16 und 17 August 1812 gezeichen' (1), '23 jan 1808 ......' (5)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watercolor (1-7), heightened with white (4-6 and 8), watermarks Pro Patria (1, 5-6), D & C B[LAUW] in a cartouche (2), JKOOL (4), JWHATMAN 1811 (7), JKOOL & COMP (8), countermark M (9), on milled paper (3)
11½ x 7¾ in. (318 x 196 mm.); 13¼ x 19½ in. (335 x 492 mm.); 17 X 22 in. (430 x 560 mm.); 15 x 10½ in. (382 x 265 mm.); 8 1/8 x 12 7/8 in. (203 x 326 mm.); 12 7/8 x 9¼ in. (326 x 232 mm.); 10¼ x 15 7/8 in. (260 x 402 mm.); 20 3/8 x 16 5/8 in. (516 x 421 mm.); 8 1/8 x 13 1/8 in. (207 x 333 mm.); and Six drawings of A classical hero detained by two women; A frieze with the Greeks imploring Achilles to return to the war: The interior of a cottage with a peasant family gathered around a cauldron; Two roosters by a cottage; and two drawings in preparation for the scene of Women and children fleeing from a solar eclipse (15)

Lot Essay

(1 and 14) Illustrated in plate III, p. 134.
(2) Engraved by the artist in the same direction (Andresen 133).

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