Lot 217
  • 217

Johann Bernard Klombeck

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Johann Bernard Klombeck
  • Figures on a frozen waterway
  • signed and dated 1879 l.c.
  • oil on canvas
  • 63 by 82 cm.

Provenance

Sale Amsterdam (Christie's), 10-11 February 1988, lot 253, illustrated
Private collection, Germany

Literature

G. de Werd, A. Nollert, Johann Bernhard Klombeck 1815-1893, Ein landschaftsmaler der Klever Romantik, Cleves 1993, no. 68/63 on p. 85 (erroneously dated 1868)

Condition

Canvas has been strengthened at all four edges. Otherwise iriginal canvas. Some craquelure throughout the canvas. Stretcher marks. Some retouches along the lower edge. Probably due to frame damage. Two retouches in the upper right conrer of the sky. Some minor filled in craquelure in the trees to the left.
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