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Lot 1663 Dα

Heinrich Hirt - The Helping Hand

Auction 1057 - overview Cologne
14.11.2015, 11:00 - Old Master and 19th Century Paintings and Drawings
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €

Heinrich Hirt

The Helping Hand

Oil on canvas (relined). 72 x 83 cm.
Signed lower left: H. Hirt München.

Works by the genre painter Heinrich Hirt, about whose life and work little is known, are quite rare nowadays. The present, finely painted rural interior scene shows two women and a hunter, and is a typical product of the Munich school of the latter half of the 19th century.

Provenance

Auctioned by Christie's New York, 22.5.1997, lot 98. - Auctioned by Phillips, London, 22.6.1999, lot 3.