CARL HAAG | The Cave beneath the Holy Rock, Jerusalem

Private collection, UK; thence by descent
Somerville & Co. Ltd., London
Purchased from the above by the present owner in 2015

Possibly, London, Verein für Kunst und Wissenschaft (German Athenaeum), 1876, no. 35, listed (as The Cave beneath the Holy Rock, Jerusalem; lent by the artist)

Watercolour over pencil on wove paper, affixed to a backboard thus preventing full inspection of the reverse. The artist's sheet has been extended along its edges with some 0.5 cm wide bands of paper and subsequently laid on a second sheet of paper. This appears to have been the artist's work, as the painted composition extends to the added edges. The sheet is somewhat undulated in the left hand side and appears to be very lightly time stained. The medium is however in very good condition. Colours are strong and vibrant. This work is ready to hang. Presented glazed and framed.
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Another work of the same subject by Haag was lent by Queen Victoria to an exhibition of the artist's work at the Goupil Galleries in London in 1885.

See note to lot 19.