Lot 98
  • 98

Carl Spitzweg

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Carl Spitzweg
  • GEBIRGSLANDSCHAFT mit Sennerin im wendelsteingebiet (Mountain and Milkmaid along a winding stone path)
  • signed with the arist's rhombus monogram lower left

  • oil on panel

  • 7 by 4 3/4 in.
  • 17.7 by 12 cm

Provenance

Sale: Hugo Heling, Frankfurt, December 1-3, 1925, lot 592
Gustav Oberlaender, Reading, Pennsylvania 
Thence by descent to the present owner (great-grandaughter of the above)

Literature

Günther Roennefahrt, Carl Spitzweg; beschreibendes Verzeichnis seiner Gemälde, Ölstudien und Aquarelle, Munich, 1960, no. 366
Seigfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg. Die Wanderwege, I. Das Motive der Felsenshlucht im Werk von Carl Spitzweg, Sindelfingen, 1976, p. 24, no. 43
Seigfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg. Hochtal mit Sennerin, Dokumentation, Starnberg-München, Reihe für vergleichende und angewandte Kunstgeschichte., 1994, p. 30, Bayer, Stattsbibl, Munich, inv.-nr. Ana 656 SW 120
Seigfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg, Verzeichnis der Werke, Gemälde und Aquarelle, Stuttgart, 2002, pp. 503-4, no. 1372, illustrated p. 503

Condition

This small painting is on a stable panel support. There is some yellowed discoloration around the perimeter, along beveled edges under the frame. Under UV, two small dots of inpainting fluoresce in the upper left portion of the sky.
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