Karl Friedrich Schinkel - View of Syracuse with the Manor House of the English Consul G. F. Leckie in Tremiglia - image-1

Lot 1500 Dα

Karl Friedrich Schinkel - View of Syracuse with the Manor House of the English Consul G. F. Leckie in Tremiglia

Auction 1132 - overview Cologne
18.05.2019, 14:00 - 19th Century
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.400 €
Result: 1.364 € (incl. premium)

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

View of Syracuse with the Manor House of the English Consul G. F. Leckie in Tremiglia

Pencil on grey blue laid paper. 11.6 x 22.9 cm.

Loose sketchbook page from Schinkel's first visit to Italy. Mentioned in his travel diary on 30.5.1804. This view of a manor house built on a rocky outcrop inspired Schinkel to draw two further idealised versions of the edifice.

Provenance

In the ownership of Schinkel's descendants. - Christie's London, 10.10.1995. - Van Ham, Cologne, 26.6. 1997. - South German private ownership.

Literature

Georg Friedrich Koch: Die Reisen nach Italien 1803-1805 und 1824. Überarbeitet und ergänzt von Helmut Börsch-Supan und Gottfried Riemann. Munich/Berlin, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006 (= Karl Friedrich Schinkel Lebenswerk, vol. XIX), cat. no. 287, (illus.) and p. 98 footnote 178.