Max Slevogt - Loreley
Max Slevogt
Loreley
1886
Oil on canvas, old relining and mounted on slightly larger stretcher 34.6 x 18.2 cm resp. 36 x 19.2 cm Framed. Signed 'Slevogt' (later) in black lower left. Signed, dated, and inscribed 'gemalt 1886 Slevogt' in black verso on relined canvas. - A few isolated retouches in upper area of the sky and along the left margin.
Compositionally, Slevogt's pencil drawing "Loreley. Entwurf für ein Gemälde", created in 1886, is directly related (Imiela op. cit. 110).
Catalogue Raisonné
Not recorded by Imiela
Certificate
Accompanied by a certificate from Sigrun Paas, Mainz, dated October 2015
We would like to thank Bernhard Geil, Slevogthof Neukastel, for confirmatory information.
Provenance
Family possession, Hesse
Literature
cf. Hans-Jürgen Imiela, Max Slevogt, Karlsruhe 1968, p. 289 with illus. no. 110, and p. 14 and p. 346, annot. 7