Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 2

Barbara Regina Dietzsch
Barbara Regina Dietzsch Watercolor Painting of White Primrose, ca. 1730

ca. 1730

About the Item

Barbara Regina Dietzsch, 1706-1783 White Primrose, Japanese Quince, a Beetle, and a Butterfly, ca. 1730 Opaque watercolor painting inscribed on the reverse by a later hand 'B. R. Dietzsch’ and numbered “28” Barbara Regina Dietzsch was a member of an important family of painters, engravers, and musicians that flourished in Nuremberg during the eighteenth-century. Dietzsch was particularly known for her marvelous renderings of flowers and fruit in watercolor and gouache. Employed at the court of Nuremberg, she drew extensively for engravers there, and her work was of such outstanding quality that it was used by Trew and Georg Ehret for a number of plates in the Hortus Nitidissimis (1750-86). The patronage of Dr. Christoph Trew, the great botanist, and bibliographer, made Nuremberg one of the foremost centers of botanical art in the world, and the Dietzsch family was one of the most noted of the era. Even at the time of its production, the work of Barbara Regina Dietzsch was much sought after by collectors in both the Netherlands and in England. It is recorded that some of the best-known painters of the time accepted her works as a form of payment, signaling the great reputation she attained during her lifetime -- a celebration that has continued to grow in the intervening centuries. Like most of her family’s work, Dietzsch’s watercolors are often characterized by the use of a black or dark brown ground and it is partly upon the basis of this that the current attribution has been based. This creates a dramatic contrast between the subject and background and emphasizes the sharp, hard finish of the drawing. The great flower painter Georg Ehret occasionally placed his bouquets on a dark background, but these are not nearly so successful as Dietzsch’s in making the subject come to life. Various examples of her work can be found in the Broughton Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England and in each the dark ground is present. What separates the work of Barbara Regina from that of her other family members is the remarkable clarity of depiction and skill in rendering. With unbelievable mastery and stylistic power, Dietzsch overcame contemporary estimations of women’s inferiority in the field of art, creating watercolors of distinctive splendor.
  • Creator:
    Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706 - 1783)
  • Creation Year:
    ca. 1730
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 8.25 in (20.96 cm)Width: 6 in (15.24 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
    1730-1739
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2157211687352

More From This Seller

View All
Set of 5 Watercolor on Paper Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Boy Kong (b. 1993, Orlando) is a self-taught multi-media artist. Raised in Orlando and of Chinese-Vietnamese heritage, his growing body of work draws inspiration from a vast array of...
Category

2010s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Gouache and Graphite Drawing on Board by Lois Field, Dated 1947
Located in New York, NY
Lois Field (Am. 1923 - 2010) Untitled Gouache and graphite on board, 1947 11 3/4” x 9” Signed and dated Lois Field ‘47, lower left Provenance The artist, Webster Groves, MO (ca. 200...
Category

1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Watercolor and Gouache on Paper, by Charles Burchfield, circa 1925
Located in New York, NY
Charles Burchfield, 1893-1967 Wallpaper Design No.2, 1922-28 Watercolor and gouache on paper
Category

1920s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Watercolor and Wood Cut Painting Titled "We're Still in the Hole", Atsuko Honda
Located in New York, NY
Atsuko Honda (b.1984, Osaka) utilizes traditional techniques and methods that are increasingly rare among 21st-century practitioners. Honda has been focusing on printmaking since 200...
Category

2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Woodcut

Watercolor Painting by William Zorach, Titled "Redwoods, Yosemite Valley", 1920
By William Zorach
Located in New York, NY
William Zorach, 1887-1966 Redwoods, Yosemite Valley, 1920 Watercolor and pencil 15 ¾ x 13 ⅜ inches Signed (at lower right): William Zorach WZorach-7 Provenance: Estate of William Zorach Exhibited: William Zorach, 1887-1996, Sculpture, Drawings and Watercolors, Zabriskie Gallery, New York; Feb. 10 – March 14, 1998. William Zorach was born in Lithuania in 1889, and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1893. Settling in Cleveland with his parents, he worked as a lithographer from 1902- 1908, making enough money to study painting with Henry G. Keller at the School of Art. In 1910, Zorach traveled to Paris to study in La Palette, where he was encouraged to develop his own unique style rather than adhere to traditional teachings. Zorach once said, “I began to be conscious of the various modern influences that were invading the art world…I was disturbed and confused, and yet I felt that I was a very young man entering a new age. The forces creating modern art seemed more alive to me than anything I had known or anything being done in America.” 1 Together with his wife Marguerite, William Zorach produced a number of Cubist- style paintings for the American Armory Show of 1913, and the Forum Exhibition in New York in 1916. Around 1917, Zorach followed the lead of cubist artist Pablo Picasso and began experimenting with wood and stone carvings. By 1922, he devoted himself entirely to sculpture, and like Picasso, became fascinated in “primitive art”—the ritual objects and sculpture pieces of Oceanic, Native American and African tribes. Zorach’s work developed in its use of block-like forms with progressive suppression of detail—drawing elements from sources as disparate as the contemporary cubist and modernist movements, and combining them with forms seen in early African sculpture. Though the forms of his sculpture were often abstract, Zorach primarily focused upon a traditional subject matter, producing such well-known sculptures as Young Girl, now in the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Mother and Child, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Today, William Zorach is known as one of the earliest and most influential American artists dedicated to direct carving. Zorach also made an impression as a teacher and writer, facilitating a major change in the aesthetic philosophy and technique of sculpture in the United States. During the summers from 1913 to 1922, Zorach and his wife Marguerite painted...
Category

1920s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

Pen on Paper Drawing by Sonja Shoemaker, Untitled, 2010
Located in New York, NY
Sonja Shomekaer is an artist and designer based in California. She creates large-scale drawings on paper that incorporate iconography of natural life. Here, Sonja weaves in an out of...
Category

2010s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pen

You May Also Like

Dutch School, Marine, Coastal Scene with Ships in Storm
Located in Greven, DE
Marine Dutch School, 18th Century Coastal Scene with ships in a storm Gouache on prepared paper
Category

18th Century Baroque Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Landscape by Moonlight, Waterfall, Monthelier, French Romantic Art, Christmas
Located in Greven, DE
Fine Watercolour Drawing by Alexandre Jules Monthelier. He was a French Artist who worked in France and created many drawings of famous landscape and sceneries (e.g. the cathedral of...
Category

19th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Watercolor: Golden in the Sand by Philadelphia Artist George Lambdin
By George Cochran Lambdin
Located in Philadelphia, PA
George Cochran Lambdin (American, 1830–1896) Goldenrod in the Sand Watercolor on paper, 19 x 12 inches Framed: 27 x 20 inches (approx.) A son of the portraitist James Reid Lambdin, ...
Category

Late 19th Century Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"DEATH VALLEY", watercolor, mojave desert, Badwater, storm, sky, clouds, salt
By Fleur Thesmar
Located in Toronto, Ontario
DEATH VALLEY is a new watercolor on Arches paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 22x30" and is professionally framed in white with UV protection, anti-glare glass. Framed it m...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

"HOPE", watercolor, spring, snow flowers, trees, moss, gardens, flora, nature
By Fleur Thesmar
Located in Toronto, Ontario
HOPE is a new watercolor on Arches paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 22x30". The artist has written that in the spring of 2020, at the height ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

"STELLATA MAGNOLIA 2", watercolor, tree, flowers, forsythia, home, architecture
By Fleur Thesmar
Located in Toronto, Ontario
STELLATA MAGNOLIA 2 is a new watercolor on Arches paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 30x22". Note the fluid precision of the tree, blossoming into...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Recently Viewed

View All