Lot 198 D α

Josef Scheurenberg - The Courtship

Auction 1104 - overview Cologne
14.03.2018, 14:30 - Paintings 15th-19th Century
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €

Josef Scheurenberg

The Courtship

Oil on panel. 46 x 58 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: J. Scheurenberg 18... (the last two digits illegible).

This depiction of a young couple beneath an arbour is a characteristic example of the lighthearted Rococo-Era genre scenes for which Scheurenberg was famed alongside his sensitive portraits and monumental commissions such as Berlin city hall.

Provenance

Former Kunstsalon Herm. Abels, Cologne (with gallery label to verso). - In private ownership by descent since at least 1961.

Literature

Boetticher, Friedrich von: Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 2nd ed. Leipzig 1941, vol. 2/2, p. 548, no. 19.