Bildnis Johann Jacob Bodmer

1781

on display

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein1751 Haina – 1829 Eutin

Tischbein stayed in Zurich from May 1781 to October 1782 and was also introduced by Lavater to Bodmer (see at Heinrich Füssli, inv. 70). In his autobiography, Tischbein describes the visit and how he captured the patriarch on canvas in forty-five minutes.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Also known as

Portrait of Johann Jacob Bodmer

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

image: 80 x 62 cm

Inventory number

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by Mayor Johann Jakob Escher, 1847

Signature

Inscriptions

Accession year

1847

Provenance

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (*1751 Haina, +1829 Eutin) (Künstler/-in)
[Verbleib unbekannt?]
o.D. – 1847, Hans Jakob Escher (*1783 Zürich, +1854 Zürich) (Sammler/-in)
ab 1847, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, Geschenk

About the provenance

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Literature (general)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 136. - Wilhelm Heinrich Tischbein: Aus meinem Leben, hrsg. von Kuno Mittelstädt, Berlin, 1922, S. 153 f..

Object type

painting

Classification

B 1[4] painting 16th to 18th century GER

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