WOLFGANG ADAM TÖPFFER (Genève 1766-1847 Morillon) Three Women and Child at a Source. Water-colour. Monogrammed on the right in the rock "AT". 17,5:25 cm. Wolfgang Adam Töpffer contributed considerably to the development of genre painting in Switzerland. During the prerevolutionary unrest in France, which eventually led to the Revolution and to the Napoleonic Wars, Töpffer, in Geneva, discovered the peaceful side of country life. Drawing was his Passion; he was of those artists who captured the world in drawing. His water-colours oscillate between the ideal, stately compositions of the Dix-huitiàme and the realistic depictions of Nature of the 19th century and have an engaging charm of their own. In excellent condition. Lucien Boissonnas will include this water-colour in his catalogue raisonné.