Georg Osterwald - The Father's Grave - image-1

Lot 1547 Dα

Georg Osterwald - The Father's Grave

Auction 1029 - overview Cologne
17.05.2014, 15:00 - 19th Century Paintings and Drawings
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 4.392 € (incl. premium)

Georg Osterwald

The Father's Grave

Oil on canvas. 38 x 48 cm.

This depiction of a crusader before a grave is based on a drawing by Caspar Scheuren (1810-1887) from 1865. A drawing by Georg Osterwald follows this prototype almost exactly, except that the sarcophagus has been changed from a double grave to a single one, and this drawing is of the exact composition also used for this work. A further painting with this design was mistakenly ascribed to Carl Gustav Carus and auctioned by Christie's in 1994 (London, 13.10.1994, lot 11).
We would like to thank Professor Helmut Börsch-Supan (Berlin) for his assistance in cataloguing this work.

Provenance

Private collection, North Germany.

Literature

For Scheuren and Osterwald's drawings, cf.: Wolfgang Vomm: Von Altenberg nach Bensberg. Unbekannte Ansichten von Caspar Scheuren aus dem Bergischen Land. In: Romerike Berge. Zeitschrift für das Bergische Land 52 (issue 2), 2002, p. 2-25, illus. 6-7.