Fishermen on the River Zschopau by Kriebstein Castle, Saxony

Zingg’s large, perfectly preserved sheet is an autonomous work of art. The scene shows fishermen
on the bank of the river Zschopau in Germany, with Kriebstein Castle rising in the background. Zingg meticulously recorded elements of the Saxon landscape by delineating outlines in fine pen strokes, filling them in with graded tones of brown wash, and leaving reserves of white paper as highlights. The Swiss artist, who specialized in topographical images, spent much of his career teaching at the academy in Dresden, here the noted Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774–1840) was among his students.