Portfolio Category: ÖLSKIZZEN

Christian Friedrich Gille (Ballenstedt 1805 - 1899 Dresden) View of the Elbe Valley near Dresden, 1831 Oil on paper, laid down on cardboard, 23.3 x 29.5 cm Signed with the initials and dated lower right CG 26 Aug 31 (incised in wet paint) Provenance: Estate of the artist; acquired from aforementioned by Friedrich Asch, Dresden (see label on the verso dated November...

Carl Gustav Carus (Leipzig 1789 - 1869 Dresden) Rising Moon and Pines Oil on paper mounted on cardboard, 11.3 x 7.8 cm Provenance: - probably Kunsthandlung Rusch, Dresden (by 1930); - probably Kunsthandel Luz, Berlin (by WWII); - private collection, Liechtenstein (documented 1995-2009); - private collection, Switzerland. Exhibited: - Dresden, Kunstausstellung Kühl (label on the verso); - Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum (inv. Gm 2060), on long-term loan...

Carl Gustav Carus (Leipzig 1789 - 1869 Dresden) A Moonlit View of the Artificial Ruin near Schloss Pillnitz Oil on paper mounted on cardboard, 10.5 x 7 cm Executed on a printed invitation card from the Dresden botanical association FLORA Provenance: - Kunsthandlung Rusch, Dresden (by 1930); - Kunsthandel Luz, Berlin (by WWII); - listed by Prause as ‘whereabouts unknown’ (1968); - private...

Telemaco Signorini (1835 - Florence - 1901) House in Piagentina, Florence, 1862-6 Oil on canvas laid down on panel, 12.4 x 19.8 cm Monogrammed lower left TS Provenance: Aldo Avati (1885-1971), Milan (bearing his stamp on the verso). The Istituto Matteucci, Viareggio, has provided verbal confirmation of authorship.

Telemaco Signorini was one of the leading members of the Macchiaioli, a group...