Vue Perspective du Pont de la Trinite de Florence
| Reference: | C0-884 |
| Author | Georg Balthasar PROBST |
| Year: | 1750 ca. |
| Zone: | Florence |
| Measures: | 430 x 290 mm |
€300.00
| Reference: | C0-884 |
| Author | Georg Balthasar PROBST |
| Year: | 1750 ca. |
| Zone: | Florence |
| Measures: | 430 x 290 mm |
€300.00
Description
Optical view of the 18th century with period colors.
Copper etching, impressed on thick laid paper with contemporary watercolor highlights. Published in Augsburg around 1750.
In the 18th century, some renowned intaglio workshops in Paris, London, Augsburg and Bassano specialized in creating these optical views. The views could be viewed alone or through a zogroscope, a wooden stand topped with a lens that magnified the image and accentuated the perspective effect. They could also be placed in optical boxes, with the viewer looking inside the box through the lens. This form of entertainment was very popular in the 18th century in the drawing rooms of the bourgeoisie and nobility, as well as in the countryside, thanks to peddlers. Today these engravings are displayed in museums around the world and are highly prized by collectors and decorators for their historical interest and high decorative value.
Georg Balthasar PROBST (1732-1801)
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Georg Balthasar Probst was a German artist, engraver and publisher in Augsburg, a major European publishing center in the 17th and 18th centuries. He produced architectural views of places around the world intended as vues d’optiques, which were published in various places during the last half of the 18th century, including Paris, Augsburg and London. He was also known for his portraits.
Probst came from an extended family of printers, whose businesses can all be traced back to the publishing firm of Jeremias Wolff (1663-1724). After Wolff's death his firm was continued as “Wolff’s Heirs” (Haeres Jer. Wolffii) by his son-in-law Johann Balthasar Probst (1689-1750). After Probst’s death in 1750, his descendants divided the business and published under their own imprints: Johann Friedrich Probst (1721-1781), Georg Balthasar Probst (1732-1801) and Johann Michael Probst.
Another part of the Wolff-Probst firm was acquired by the Augsburg publisher Johann Georg Hertel (1700-1775), whose son Georg Leopold Hertel had married a sister of the Probsts. In the next generation, Georg Mathäus Probst (d. 1788), son of Georg Balthasar Probst, also became an engraver of portraits and views.
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Georg Balthasar PROBST (1732-1801)
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Georg Balthasar Probst was a German artist, engraver and publisher in Augsburg, a major European publishing center in the 17th and 18th centuries. He produced architectural views of places around the world intended as vues d’optiques, which were published in various places during the last half of the 18th century, including Paris, Augsburg and London. He was also known for his portraits.
Probst came from an extended family of printers, whose businesses can all be traced back to the publishing firm of Jeremias Wolff (1663-1724). After Wolff's death his firm was continued as “Wolff’s Heirs” (Haeres Jer. Wolffii) by his son-in-law Johann Balthasar Probst (1689-1750). After Probst’s death in 1750, his descendants divided the business and published under their own imprints: Johann Friedrich Probst (1721-1781), Georg Balthasar Probst (1732-1801) and Johann Michael Probst.
Another part of the Wolff-Probst firm was acquired by the Augsburg publisher Johann Georg Hertel (1700-1775), whose son Georg Leopold Hertel had married a sister of the Probsts. In the next generation, Georg Mathäus Probst (d. 1788), son of Georg Balthasar Probst, also became an engraver of portraits and views.
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