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WOLFGANG-ADAM TÖPFFER (Geneva 1766–1847 Morillon) La diseuse de bonne aventure (La Bohémienne). 1812. Oil on canvas on wooden panel. Signed, dated and inscribed lower right: ATöpffer. 1812. Genève. 68.5 × 86.8 cm. Provenance: - Collection of Jean-Louis-Masbou, Geneva. - Collection of François-Jules Pictet-De La Rive, Geneva. - Collection of Alphonse Pictet, Geneva. - Collection of Guillaume Fatio, Geneva. - Collection of Robert Fatio-Revilliod, Geneva. - Collection of Cuvit-Fatio, Geneva. Exhibited: - Geneva 1857, Classe des Beaux-art, Société des Arts, 12.–24.11.1857. - Geneva 1896, Exposition nationale suisse, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1.5.–15.10.1896, no. 1181. - Geneva 1934, Expositions d'œuvres des peintres genevois Pierre-Louis De la Rive (1755–1817), Adam-Wolfgang Toepffer (1766–1847) appartenant à des collections privées, Musée d'art et d'histoire Musée Ariana, 22.2.–25.3.1934, no. 70. Literature: - Charles Dubois-Melly: Töpffer le peintre, Geneva 1858. - Louis Gielly: L'école genevoise de peinture, Geneva 1935, p. 215. - Lucien Boissonnas: Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer (1766–1847). Catalogue raisonné des Peintures, Bern 2011, p. 51, 170–171, no. LBP 88 (with ill.).
zurich, Switzerland
