The Couple in the Thatched Hut
Original Language TitleDas Paar in der Strohhutte
Series TitleSuite of Eighteen Landscapes (Suite de XVIII Paysages deffines a Laguy für Marne proche Meaux en Brie)
Artist
Franz Edmund Weirotter
(Austrian, 1730 - 1771)
Date1766
MediumEtching on laid paper
DimensionsPlate: 2 × 3 7/16 inches (5.08 × 8.73 cm)
Sheet: 5 3/8 × 5 inches (13.65 × 12.7 cm)
Sheet: 5 3/8 × 5 inches (13.65 × 12.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Kathrin and Lester Goldman
Object number2003.33.6
SignedBottom margin, plate: F. E. Weirotter fecit; plate, top right: Weirotter
MarkingsOn verso: AL-92-28-L 15. unknown collector's stamp: JN
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DescriptionSurrounded by trees, open-fronted thatched structure with two seated figures at entrance at bottom of slope. Plants in foreground; hill, lower rightExhibition HistoryAn Italian Panorama: The Romance of Ruins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 10, 2009-May 16, 2010, no cat., as The Couple in the Thatched Hut.
An Italian Panorama: The Romance of Ruins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 19, 2017-January 14, 2018, no cat., as The Couple in the Thatched Hut.
Lester (1942-2005) and Kathrin (née Topp) Goldman, Kansas City, MO, by December 31, 2003;
Given by Lester and Kathrin Goldman to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2003.Thilo Winterberg, Franz Edmund Weirotter (1733-1771), Der Landschaftsradierer, Das Graphische Werk (Heidelberg, Germany: Galeria Palatina, 1998).
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