Carl Gustav Carus
(Leipzig 1789 - 1869 Dresden)
Evening Light near Pillnitz, c.1835
Oil on cardboard, 13.5 x 19.6 cm
Provenance:
Caroline Cäcilie Carus, the artist’s daughter;
Margarete Schwerdtner, foster daughter of Caroline Cäcilie Carus;
Thence to a god-daughter of Margarete Schwerdtner;
Private collection, New York.
Literature:
Marianne Prause, Carl Gustav Carus. Leben und Werk, Berlin 1968, p.149, no. 287 [as Ruine in Pillnitz über...
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Carl Gustav Carus – SOLD
Carl Gustav Carus
(1789 Leipzig - 1869 Dresden)
Moonlight on River Elbe at Pillnitz
Oil on cardboard, 17.8 x 25.4 cm
On the verso the address label of Windsor & Newton, London and the handwritten inscription Carus ‘Insel bei Pillnitz'.
Provenance:
Private collection, Dresden, thence by descent;
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia;
Private collection, New York.
A report by Professor Dr. Helmut Börsch-Supan,...
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Johann Theodor Goldstein – SOLD
Johann Theodor Goldstein
(Warsaw 1798 - after 1871 Dresden)
View of a Gothic Cathedral, 1822
Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 89.5 cm
Signed and dated lower left J. Goldstein. / 1822.
Provenance:
Johann Gottlob von Quandt (1787-1859), purchased from the artist in 1822;
Possibly Clara Bianca von Quandt (1790-1862), wife of the above;
Gustav von Quandt, son of the above, until 1868;
Dresden, unidentified...
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Antoine Chazal – SOLD
Antoine Chazal, attr.
(1793 - Paris - 1854)
A Pumpkin
Oil on canvas, 32 x 38 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, France;
Private collection, New York.
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Painting in life-size on a relatively small canvas, Antoine Chazal has succeeded in depicting a pumpkin in an arresting and unconventional way. The composition is carefully composed. The pumpkin is placed in a natural setting...