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Lot 2319 Dα

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein - Ducks on the Shore of the Baltic Sea

Auction 1197 - overview Cologne
21.05.2022, 14:30 - 19th Century
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.500 €

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

Ducks on the Shore of the Baltic Sea

Black chalk, grey pencil and pen in brown, watercolour hightened in gold. 18.4 x 32.2 cm.
Stamped on the reverse: J. H. W. Tischbein and Th. III.8 in black ink.

Depicting ducks on a lakeshore. A slightly differing variation on a sheet housed in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Hamburger Kunsthalle (inv. no. 39908).

Provenance

Christie’s New York, 22nd January 2003, lot 146.

Literature

Peter Prange: Deutsche Zeichnungen 1450–1800, Die Sammlungen der Hamburger Kunsthalle. Kupferstichkabinett, hrsg. von Hubertus Gaßner und Andreas Stolzenburg, 2 vols., Cologne/Weimar/Vienna 2007, vol. 1, p. 353, no. 1022.