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Sotheby's: 19th Century European Paintings, including German, Austrian and Central European Paintings, and The Scandinavian Sale: Lot 18

CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH GERMAN, 1774-1840

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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

IDEALE GEBIRGSLANDSCHAFT MIT WASSERFALL (IDEALISED LANDSCAPE WITH WATERFALL)

50.5 by 69cm., 19¾ by 27¼in.

sepia heightened with white on brown paper

PROVENANCE

A. Langguth, Greifswald (a descendant of Friedrich's brother Adolf)
Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin
Ernst Henke, Essen (acquired from the above in 1936); thence by descent

EXHIBITED

Dresden, Sächsische Akademie der Künste, Kunstausstellung, 1814, no. 289 (titled Der Amselfall im Radewalder Grunde, vom Monde beleuchtet)
Berlin, Deutsche Jahrhundert-Ausstellung 1775-1785, 1906 (titled Landschaft aus der Sächsischen Schweiz (Amselgrund)

LITERATURE

Anonymous, 'Die Kunstausstellung in Dresden am 24. März 1814', Journal des Luxus und der Moden, 1814, p. 360 (mentioned)
Kurt Karl Eberlein, Caspar David Friedrich, der Landschaftsmaler. Ein Volksbuch deutscher Kunst, Leipzig, 1940, fig. 53
Sigrid Hinz, Caspar David Friedrich als Zeichner. Ein Beitrag zur stilistischen Entwicklung und ihrer Bedeutung für die Datierung der Gemälde, diss., Greifswald, 1966, no. 357
Werner Sumowski, Caspar David Friedrich - Studien, Wiesbaden, 1970, pp. 139, 140, 142
Helmut Börsch-Supan, discussion of Werner Sumowski's Caspar David Friedrich - Studien, in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 34, 1971, p. 315
Helmut Börsch-Supan and Karl Wilhelm Jähnig, Caspar David Friedrich. Gemälde, Druckgraphik und bildmäßige Zeichnungen, Munich, 1973, no. 1, p. 234, illustrated

NOTE

There are differing opinions among Friedrich scholars over the dating of this work, although all are agreed that it is early. Eberlein dates it simply to pre-1800, Hinz to circa 1803, and Sumowski to circa 1801. Helmut Börsch-Supan and Karl Jähnig believe it to have been executed around 1793.

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