Carl Spitzweg - The Dangerous Passage - image-1

Lot 1520 Dα

Carl Spitzweg - The Dangerous Passage

Auction 1087 - overview Cologne
20.05.2017, 14:30 - 19th Century Art
Estimate: 25.000 € - 30.000 €
Result: 42.160 € (incl. premium)

Carl Spitzweg

The Dangerous Passage

Watercolour over pencil on paper. 22 x 16.7 cm.
Framed under glass.
Signed and dated lower left: Spitzweg 44.

Carl Spitzweg painted this motif in oils several times. It is doubtful that the present study is the prime version of the composition, as Uhde-Bernays proposed in his expertise, as another version exists dated 1841 (Wichmann, op. cit., no. 210).

Certificate

Hermann Uhde-Bernays, Starnberg 1.XI.1931

Provenance

Queenn Elisabeth of Prussia, wife of Frederick William IV. - Presented to her chamber woman Karoline Schwarz as a wedding present in 1860. - E. Schaernack Hamburg. - Private collection, South Germany.

Literature

For this artist cf.: S. Wichmnann: Carl Spitzweg. Verezichnis der Werke, Stuttgart 2002.