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Lot 138 Dα

Ludwig Brüls - The Knight's Farewell The Knight's Return

Auction 1114 - overview Cologne
19.09.2018, 14:30 - Paintings 15th-19th C.
Estimate: 7.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 7.440 € (incl. premium)

Ludwig Brüls

The Knight's Farewell The Knight's Return

Oil on canvas. 73.5 x 60.5 and 74 x 61.5 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: L. Brüls Roma 1840 and signed and dated lower right: L. Brüls Roma 1841.

Louis Joseph Brüls was born in Aachen and learnt to paint at the academy in Antwerp under W. Herreyns, one of the most famous narrative painters of his time. Brüls settled in Rome in 1837 and died there in 1882. The scenes in this pair of works are presumably intended to evoke the time of the crusades, which was a popular theme in Romantic painting.

Provenance

Lempertz auction 735, Cologne, 23.11.1996, lot 1431. - Lempertz auction 1029, Cologne, 17.5.2014, lot 1515. - Galerie Volker Westphal, Berlin.