Lot 5
  • 5

Friedrich Gauermann Austrian, 1807-1862

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Description

  • Friedrich Gauermann
  • Bären Zerlegen einen Hirsch (Preying Bears)
  • signed with the artist's initials F G l.l.

  • oil on paper laid down on board

  • 30 by 22cm., 11¾ by 8¾in.

Provenance

Sale: Dorotheum, Vienna, 30 November 1965, lot 54
Purchased at the above sale

Literature

Rupert Feuchtmüller, Friedrich Gauermann 1807-1862. Der Tier- und Landschaftsmaler des Österreichischen Biedermeier, Vienna, 1962, no. 177, p. 187

Condition

The paper is laid down onto a board which remains flat and even. There are a few scattered spots of infilling visible under ultraviolet light, notably to the lower left and in the hillside upper left. The paint surface is overall in good condition. Held in a plaster moulded gilt frame.
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