Carl Friedrich Lessing - Studies for the work "Eichenwald mit einem an einem Brunnen rastenden Ritter"
Carl Friedrich Lessing
Studies for the work "Eichenwald mit einem an einem Brunnen rastenden Ritter"
Oil on card. 61 x 50.5 cm.
The present work is a study for Lessing's painting "Eichenwald mit einem an einem Brunnen rastenden Ritter" (A Knight Resting Before a Well in an Oak Forest“. The piece depicts two trees before a clearing to the left of the knight and his horse. The original (oil on canvas, 65 x 91 cm) from 1839 was once part of the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, but has been lost since 1945.
Provenance
Private collection, Rhineland Palatinate.