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Lot 167 Dα

Franz Knebel - The Waterfall at Tivoli

Auction 1104 - overview Cologne
14.03.2018, 14:30 - Paintings 15th-19th Century
Estimate: 12.000 € - 15.000 €
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Franz Knebel

The Waterfall at Tivoli

Oil on canvas. 98 x 136 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: F Knebel Roma 1876 (the last two digits indistinct).

The waterfalls at Tivoli were among the most popular stations of the so-called Grand Tour made by aristocratic and upper-middle class travellers in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Swiss painter Franz Knebel opened a studio on the Piazza di Spagna in Rome in 1833 and specialised in Italian topographic scenes. He adopted the motif of the magnificent natural phenomena in Tivoli several times. The figures and animals in the foreground were important compositional elements in all of these works, evoking the vision of a rural, untouched Italian countryside.

Provenance

Collection of Dr. Georg Schaefer, Schweinfurt (with collection label on the back of the stretcher). – Auctioned by Christie’s, Düsseldorf, 31.1.2000, lot 36. - Rhenish aristocratic ownership.