European Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture
European Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture
EMANUEL GOTTLIEB LEUTZE | NYDIA, THE BLIND GIRL OF POMPEII
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April 22, 08:45 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
EMANUEL GOTTLIEB LEUTZE
German
1816 - 1868
NYDIA, THE BLIND GIRL OF POMPEII
signed E G Leutze and dated 1840 (lower left)
oil on canvas
canvas: 24 by 20⅛ in.; 61 by 51.3 cm
framed: 32 by 28 in.; 81.3 by 71.1 cm
We would like to thank Dr. Graham C. Boettcher for kindly contributing to the cataloguing for this lot.
Joseph Sill, Philadelphia (by 1841)
Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, Philadelphia, February 1841, vol. XVIII, no. 2, p. 5, illustrated opposite
Barbara S. Groseclose, "Catalog of Known Works," Emanuel Leutze, 1816-1868: Freedom Is the Only King, Washington, D.C., 1975, p. 72, no. 14
Jon L. Seydl, "Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection," The Last Days of Pompeii, Los Angeles, 2012, p. 20, illustrated
Apollo Association, New York, March 1841, no. 118
Philadelphia Art Union, February 1849