By Otto Bacher
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Otto Bacher (1856-1909)
Fondamenta Della Zattere, Venice
Etching, 1881 (Getscher)
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo), VERY RARE SIGNED IMPRESSION
Also signed and dated in the plate (see photo)
This is a pencil signed proof, not the later unsigned published edition
Illustrated: Robert Getscher, The Stamp of Whistler (Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 1977, no. 100, pp. 177-178
The published edition appears in:
Publication Location of the etching
The American Art Review, vol. II, part II, 1881 Facing p. 230, accompanying S. R. Koehler’s “Mr. Bacher’s Venetian Etchings,” pp. 231–232, in the October 1881 issue.
American Art Review Portfolio, no. 24, 1882 Frontispiece. Getscher’s exhibited impression was lent by the Toledo Museum of Art.
Reference: Andrew Venetian Series 17
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 7 x 9 15/16 inches
Sheet size: 9 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, NY, label (see photo)
Otto H. Bacher (1856-1909)
Otto Henry Bacher was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to a family of German descent. He first studied art at the age of sixteen with local genre trompe l'oeil still-life artist, DeScott Evans. Although he studied with Evans for less than one year, Bacher's early work, comprised mainly of still lifes, betrays Evans's influence. After a short period in Philadelphia, where he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Bacher returned to Cleveland and met Willis Seaver Adams...
Category
1880s American Impressionist Landscape Prints