Bearded Man Spying on Lovers Under an Arbor

Prints and Drawings

1795

Johann Heinrich Ramberg
German, 1763-1840

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.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Johann Heinrich Ramberg
Title: Bearded Man Spying on Lovers Under an Arbor
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 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.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.425
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