Carl Christian Sparmann - View of Constance seen from Switzerland - image-1

Lot 1183 Dα

Carl Christian Sparmann - View of Constance seen from Switzerland

Auction 1141 - overview Cologne
16.11.2019, 11:00 - Paintings and Drawings 15th - 19th C.
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 4.092 € (incl. premium)

Carl Christian Sparmann

View of Constance seen from Switzerland

Oil on paper, mounted on canvas. 21 x 28 cm.
Signed and dated lower centre: Sparmann 1836.

Carl Christian Sparmann is considered one of the most important of Johann Christian Clausen Dahl's pupils at the Dresden Academy. Following his apprenticeship he was called to Arenberg Palace near Constance as drawing teacher to Prince Louis Napoleon, the later Emperor Napoleon III. This was in the year 1836, the year when this work was painted, which explains the artist's knowledge of this Swiss region of Lake Constance. Louis Napoleon himself returned to Arenberg in 1837 to visit his mother Hortense Beauharnais as she lay dying.
Although the circumstances under which this work was made are not known, the fine detail of the vegetation and the view of the lake in the distance reveal the influence of the Dresden Romantics on Sparmann's artistic style.

Provenance

Purchased in the 1970s from Karl & Faber in Munich. - South German private ownership.