BALTHASAR ANTON DUNKER (Saal b. Stralsund 1746-1807 Bern) Idyllic Landscape. Ink brush, washed in black and grey, over chalk drawing. Signed and dated "Dunker 1780". 40,3:39,5 cm. Ausstellung/Exhibition: Zeichnungen Alter Meister aus deutschem Privatbesitz, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1965. Kat.-Nr. 110, Abb. 137. Provenienz: Slg. J. Grünling, Wien (Lugt 1107) u. V. von Berger, Wien Beautiful, painting-like drawing of an Arcadian landscape: In the foreground a nymph and a satyr and an amphora hanging from a tree. A procession of bacchants is approaching the scene from the background. Dunker originated from Pomerania and settled in Bern in 1773 for the rest of his life, as a watercolourist, engraver, illustrator, and poet. His stylish landscape drawings range from a gallant style of the Rococo period to one of melancholic, early Romanticism in his late works. Affixed on strong paper because of a vertical cut throughout in the left third.