Etching made by landscape setter and painter Franz Edmund Weirotter around 1760-1775. Later hand-coloured. Dim. 14.2 x 19.9 cm. This depiction shows frozen water in front of a town. Agriculture is at a standstill, people are sitting on the side, there is not much work. Barrels of beer are being transported with a push sledge. Skaters glide across the ice, carrying a stick. If you break through the ice, you can use it to rescue yourself from the water. A couple playing with a top. Weirotter (1733-1771) received his training in Innsbruck, Vienna, Regensburg, Mainz and finally in Paris, where he met the German engraver Johann Georg Wille in 1759. With Wille, who was very successful in France, Weirotter learned engraving. In his early years, he followed the pseudo Dutch style originating in Italy. Despite his short life, he left an impressive oeuvre of 288 etchings. Almost all of them are landscape scenes. Shortly after his death, 218 of his etching plates were bought by the Parisian publisher Basan & Poignant, who reprinted them in a small edition in 1775. Price: Euro 375
