Lot 2395 D α

Hubert Salentin - The Smith's Apprentice

Auction 1254 - overview Cologne
16.11.2024, 14:30 - Old Masters & 19th Century, Part II
Estimate: 7.000 € - 9.000 €
Result: 8.820 € (incl. premium)

Hubert Salentin

The Smith's Apprentice

Oil on canvas. 67 x 56 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: Hubert Salentin Ddorf 59.

There are three other autograph versions of this composition by the artist, the present one, dated 1859, being the earliest, while the other pictures are dated 1860, 1861 and 1863 (Neher ibid., nos. 98, 113 and 125). A variant that differs slightly in some details was created in the same year 1859 (Neher ibid., no. 90).

Literature

F.v. Boetticher: Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. Vol. 2, Leipzig 1901, p. 516, no. 47. - M. Neher: Hubert Salentin. Der Poet in der Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Meisterschüler von Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, Cologne 2008, p. 242, No. 96 (with illustration), further illustrations on p. 140.