# A Fisherman and Two Children in a Landscape with Thatched Cottages, in Jean Etienne Liotard's contemporaries

Salomon Gessner made this in 1764, aged 34. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

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## The work

- Date: 1764
- Medium: etching on laid paper
- Dimensions: plate: 21.4 x 18.9 cm (8 7/16 x 7 7/16 in.) sheet: 29.5 x 26 cm (11 5/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996.12.2
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Salomon Gessner](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/salomon-gessner), Swiss, 1730–1788

Gessner was a Zurich poet, painter and etcher whose prose Idylls, gentle pastoral scenes of shepherds and nymphs, were translated across Europe and made him one of the most widely read writers of his day.

3 works in the collection.

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