Carl Spitzweg - A Watchman (Back View)
Carl Spitzweg
A Watchman (Back View)
Pencil on paper. 20.2 x 12.1 cm.
framed.
Lower right: Estate stamp..
Slightly yellowed, a crease to the upper edge, minor fox marks.
The present work is a sketched design of a sentinel which Spitzweg used later in his painting "Die Schildwache" (S. Wichmann: Carl Spitzweg, 2002, S. 417, Nr. 1013) around 1850.
Literature
Siegfried Wichmann: Carl Spitzweg und die französischen Zecihner Daumier, Grandville, Gaverni, Doré, Ausstellungskatalog München 1986, no. 418.