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Wolfgang Adam Töpffer

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 CHF
bidding is closed

Description

  • Wolfgang Adam Töpffer
  • JEUNES FEMMES AUPRÈS D'UNE FONTAINEYOUNG WOMEN NEAR A FOUNTAIN
  • Unten links monogrammiert

  • Öl auf Leinwand

  • 56 x 67 cm

Provenance

Ausstellung der Kunstgesellschaft, Bern (1830)
Collection Madame Camille Barbey, Genève
Collection Madame Gustave Barbey, Genève
Privatsammlung, Genf

Exhibited

Bern, Casino, 1830, Nr. 205 oder 209
Genève, Musée Rath, Exposition des oeuvres des peintres genevois, Pierre-Louis De La Rive, Adam-Wolfgang Töpffer, 1934, Nr. 60
Genève, Musée Rath, La Genève des Töpffer, Adam Töpffer, Rodolphe Töpffer, 1946, Nr. 135

Literature

S. Wagner, Bericht über die im Julius 1830 gehaltene Kunstausstellung in Bern, Bern 1830, S. 23
Lucien Boissonnas, A. Töpffer premier peintre de genre suisse(?), in: Art + Architecture en Suisse 1994/4, année 45, S. 341, abgebildet
Lucien Boissonnas, W.-A. Töpffer, Lausanne, 1996, S. 366, abgebildet
Lucien Boissonnas, Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer, 1766-1847, Catalogue raisonné des peintures, Bern 2011, S. 175, Nr. 97, abgebildet

Condition

Work not relined. Old craquelures. Minor retouchings visible under UV-light. Overall in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Gemalt um 1830.