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Description: oil on panel

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Dimensions: 16.5 by 25.5cm., 6½ by 10in.

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Provenance: C. Brose, Berlin (sale: Holstein & Puppel Kunstantiquariat, Berlin, 8 November 1928, lot 5)
Alfred Sommerguth, Berlin (probably acquired at the above sale; his forced sale: H.W. Lange, Berlin, 7 February 1939, lot 29)
Walter Andreas Hofer, Berlin
Purchased at auction in Germany in the 1960s by the father of the present owner

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Exhibited:

Berlin, Verein Berliner Künstler, n.d.
Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Karl Blechen: Leben, Würdigungen, Werk, 1940, no. 1938

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Published: Guido Joseph Kern, Karl Blechen. Sein Leben und seine Werke, Berlin, 1911, pl. II, no. 3, illustrated
Paul Ortwin Rave, 'Karl Blechen', Denkmäler deutscher Kunst, Berlin 1940, p. 488, catalogued; p. 490, illustrated

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Notes: PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF ALFRED SOMMERGUTH, BERLIN
This work is sold following a settlement agreement between the current possessor and the heirs of Alfred Sommerguth, Berlin.