Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, called Dietricy - A Harbour View - image-1

Lot 1579 Dα

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, called Dietricy - A Harbour View

Auction 1057 - overview Cologne
14.11.2015, 11:00 - Old Master and 19th Century Paintings and Drawings
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 6.820 € (incl. premium)

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, called Dietricy

A Harbour View

Oil on panel. 21.5 x 29 cm.

The brushwork of this atmospheric harbour view follows that of a series of small works on panel which were kept in the collection of the Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin during the 18th century (today the Staatliches Museum Schwerin). In 1882, the Museum director Friedrich Schlie mentioned in his catalogue of the Grand Ducal painting gallery alongside numerous works by the court painter Christian Wilhelm Dietrich also "twenty small landscape sketches painted in oils on panel (mainly harbour scenes), characterising Dietricy as the pupil of Alexander Thiele". There exist numerous comparable pieces, for example those in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Brunswick.

We would like to thank Dr. Petra Schiewind for her help in identifying this work.

Provenance

Lempertz auction 720, 15.11.1995, lot 1240. - Private collection, South Germany.