Masterdrawings - Winterberg Kunst

Masterdrawings
Summer 2012
London Drawings Week
27 June – 4 July 2012
at
Julian Hartnoll Fine Art
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Winterberg Kunst
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Masterdrawings
Summer 2012
01. ARTIST FROM AUGSBURG
A sorceress studying her books of miracles. Counterpart to the following catalogue number. White heightened brush
drawing in dark brown, around 1700. On light brown primed laid paper with watermark: Fleur-de-Lys with side mark „4“.
35 x 22.7 cm. With slight retouching. With marginal crease marks and tiny punctures. White in places partly oxidised.
Provenance: Southern German private collection.
4.800,-
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02. ARTIST FROM AUGSBURG
Ghostly enchantment scene. Counterpart to the previous catalogue number. White heightened brush drawing in dark
brown, around 1700. On light brown primed laid paper with watermark: Fleur-de-Lys with side mark „4“. 35.2 x 22.9 cm.
With marginal crease marks.
Provenance: Southern German private collection. 4.500,-
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03. OSCAR BLUHM Dresden-Lockwitz 1867 - 1912 Leipzig
The secret. Boy whispers something into the ear of a noble lady. Illustration draft for the magazine „Meggendorfer
Blätter“. Gouache 1908. Signed, dated and with pencil markings at the edges. Verso with the stamp of the „Meggendorfer Blätter“ (with number 9235 and artist‘s name) and further number „941“. On teinted wove paper. 50.5 x 39.8 cm.
Borders verso with glue remnants.
Provenance: Southern German private collection. 4.500,-
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04. OSCAR BLUHM Dresden-Lockwitz 1867 - 1912 Leipzig
The flirt. Elegant lady flirts with a gentleman, followed by a housemaid with luggage and her husband. Illustration draft
for the magazine „Meggendorfer Blätter“. Gouache, around 1910. Signed and site marked „Meissen“. Verso with stamp of
the „Meggendorfer Blätter“ (with number 407B and artist‘s name) and further number „1037“. On light card.
44.2 x 32 cm.
Provenance: Southern German private collection.
3.800,-
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Summer 2012
05. GIAMBATTISTA CANAL 1745 - Venice - 1825
Rebecca and Elieser, servant of Abraham before the city Haran. Subject for the 1st book of Moses, chapter 24, verse 22.
Washed brush drawing in brown over pencil. On strong wove paper. 28.3 x 40 cm. Mounted with minor tiny edge damage. Marginally foxed.
Provenance: Collection „SRH“ (Triangle with bowl; not in Lugt) and Anton Schmid, Vienna (Lugt 2330 b).1
Attached: Confirmation of authenticity by Dr. George Knox, Vancouver from 29th June 2006.
1 Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d‘Estampes, online.
6.500,-
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Summer 2012
06. CARLO DOLCI-Circle 1616 - Florence - 1686
The infant Jesus with two holy men. Pen-and-ink drawing. Verso with pen-and-ink sketch: Madonna with child (variations). On strong laid paper. 12.9 - 13.2 x 9.9 - 10.4 cm. Minor light brown spotting. Edges slightly irregularly cut.
Provenance: Collection G. de Nicola, Florence and Johann Georg Prince of Saxony with inventory number
„S I 27795 and 96“ as well as further, non identifiable stamp mark (Lugt 1953 a, 1162 c and not in Lugt).1
1 Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d‘Estampes, La Haye, 1956, Supplément and online.
5.800,-
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Summer 2012
07. BALTHASAR ANTON DUNKER Saal near Stralsund 1746 - 1807 Bern
Swiss mountain scene, with walking couple and goats. Watercolour with pen-and-ink in grey, 1775. Signed „(D)uncker“
and dated. Verso original markings. On wove paper with cut watermark: large crowned coat of arms with rising lion.1
27.8 x 21.8 cm. With small restored damages. Left margin cut with minimal loss of the signature.
Provenance: Private collection.
1 Cp. W. A. Churchill, Watermarks in Paper, Nieuwekoop de Graaf Publishers, 1990 (Reprint), no. 99.
5.400,-
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Summer 2012
08. FRENCH ARTIST
Portrait of a young woman. Red-chalk with accentuation in black chalk, around 1750. Verso originally marked „Boucher“.
On teinted laid paper. 22.3 x 18.8 cm. Marginally foxed. 5.800,-
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Summer 2012
09. JOHANN CHRISTIAN KLENGEL Kesselsdorf near Dresden 1751 - 1824 Dresden
Ideal landscape. Pen-and-ink and brush drawing with charcoal. Signed. On laid paper. 15.5 x 19.8 cm. Partially mildly
stained.
Provenance: Southern German private collection.
3.200,-
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Summer 2012
10. JOHANN CHRISTIAN KLENGEL Kesselsdorf near Dresden 1751 - 1824 Dresden
Two standing cattle. Brown washed drawing in black chalk. Fröhlich Z 297.1 With the monogram initial „Kl.“ On laid
paper. 15.5 x 20 cm. Marginally foxed.
Provenance: Southern German private collection.
1 Anke Fröhlich, Glücklich gewählte Natur... Der Landschaftsmaler Johann Christian Klengel. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York,
2005, p. 20f. 2.800,-
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11. FERDINAND KOBELL Mannheim 1740 - 1799 Munich
River landscape. Washed and in red-chalk revised pen-and-ink drawing in brown. On teinted laid paper. 18.3 x 23.3 cm.
Provenance: Southern German private collection. 2.400,-
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12. FERDINAND KOBELL Mannheim 1740 - 1799 Munich
Rocky landscape with wanderer. Pen-and-ink drawing in dark brown 1778. Verso signed, dated and dedicated to Salomon
Gessner. On teinted laid paper. 15.9 x 19.8 cm. Mildly foxed with 2 tiny edge damages.
Provenance: Southern German private collection.
1.800,-
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Summer 2012
13. GIOVANNI BATTISTA (GIAMBATTISTA) PITTONI THE YOUNGER 1687 - Venice - 1767
Pietà. Draft for an altar piece. Pen and brown ink, brown wash. Originally attributed. Verso with small remains of a pencil
sketch (decorative element). On teinted laid paper. 26.2 x 17.3 cm. With smoothed, vertical and horizontal folds and tiny,
partially backed holes. Marginally stained.
Provenance: Dr. Karl Löchner, Senden (not in Lugt).1
Attached: confirmation of authenticity by Dr. George Knox, Vancouver from 13th February 2009.
1 Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d‘Estampes, La Haye, 1956, Supplément and online.
6.500,-
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Summer 2012
14. OSKAR PLETSCH Berlin 1830 - 1888 Niederlößnitz
At the butchers. Illustration draft for „Was willst Du werden?“. Pen-and-ink drawing in brown with pencil, 1862. Monogrammed and dated.1 On teinted laid paper. 16.6 x 16.2 cm. Marginally stained.
Provenance: Southern German private collection.
1 Cp. Franz Goldstein, Monogramm Lexikon. Internationales Verzeichnis der Monogramme Bildender Künstler seit 1850.
Berlin, 1964, p. 609.
2.400,-
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Summer 2012
15. OSKAR PLETSCH Berlin 1830 - 1888 Niederlößnitz
In the weaver workshop. llustration draft for „Was willst Du werden?“. Pen-and-ink drawing in brown with pencil, 1862.
Monogrammed and dated „62“.1 On teinted laid paper. 17.6 x 14.9 cm. Marginally stained.
Provenance: Southern German private collection.
1 Cp. Franz Goldstein, Monogramm Lexikon. Internationales Verzeichnis der Monogramme Bildender Künstler seit 1850.
Berlin, 1964, p. 609. 2.400,-
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Summer 2012
16. OSKAR PLETSCH Berlin 1830 - 1888 Niederlößnitz
At the tanners. Illustration draft for „Was willst Du werden?“. Pen-and-ink drawing in brown with pencil. Monogrammed.1
Verso with line marks in brown ink. On teinted laid paper. 14.6 x 16.5 cm. Marginally stained.
Provenance: Southern German private collection.
1 Cp. Franz Goldstein, Monogramm Lexikon. Internationales Verzeichnis der Monogramme Bildender Künstler seit 1850.
Berlin, 1964, p. 609.
2.400,-
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Summer 2012
17. SEBASTIANO RICCI Belluno 1659 - 1734 Venice
Guardian angel saves a soul from purgatory. Red-chalk drawing. Verso with only weakly distinguishable sketch in black
chalk (Holy family). With non-identifiable collectors mark on the back. On strong teinted laid paper. 17.8 x 16.5 cm. With
weak fading marks.
In his assessment from 3rd September 2009 to the drawing at hand, George Knox wrote: „Thus the drawing must be
identified as a rare and interesting, typical and characteristic preparatory study by the hand of Sebastiano Ricci, dated
probably to the last quinquennium of his life“. Attached: above-mentioned confirmation of authenticity. 6.400,-
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Summer 2012
18. JOHANNES RIEPENHAUSEN Göttingen 1788 - 1860 Rome
The four seasons. Floating whirl of cherubs. Allegorical depiction. Red-brown and brown washed pencil, 1830. Boetticher
II, 8.1 Signed and dated. On strong teinted laid paper. 30.5 x 47 cm. Marginally stained. Edges with crease marks.
Provenance: Southern German private collection.
1 Franz von Boetticher, Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts. Hofheim/Taunus, unchanged new edition from 1969, volume II,
1st part. 6.400,-
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19. JOHANN EVANGELIST SCHEFFER VON LEONHARDSHOFF 1795 - Vienna - 1822
Abraham‘s death. Pen-and-ink drawing in brown ink with pencil over delicate pencil squared paper, 1812. Dated verso,
site marked „Padova“ and marked „Cadaglia alla Badoglia“ as well as with small pencil study (Angels head). Attributed
originally „Schäffer Giovani“ (sic!) as well as with a handwritten Italian text. On brownish laid paper. 22.7 x 30.2 cm.
Mildly stained.
Provenance: Collection W. Koenig, Vienna (Lugt 2653 b).1
1 Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d‘Estampes, La Haye, 1956, Supplément and online.
6.800,-
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Summer 2012
20. JOHANN CASPAR NEPOMUK SCHEUREN Aachen 1810 - 1887 Düsseldorf
Painting. Allegorical female figure with palette and paintbrush, floating on the back of a winged griffin, surrounded by
floral borders with artist‘s portraits. Illustration draft. Watercolour with pen-and-ink and pencil.
Signed and marked „Ernst ist das Leben - Heiter die Kunst“.1 On strong laid paper. 37.5 x 50.3 cm. Partially dusty and
marginally stained.
Provenance: Collection R. Holtkott, Rhineland (not in Lugt).2
1 The title stems from the prologue to Fr. Schiller‘s Wallenstein trilogy.
2 Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d‘Estampes, La Haye, 1956, Supplément and online.
5.800,-
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Summer 2012
21. JOHANN CASPAR NEPOMUK SCHEUREN Aachen 1810 - 1887 Düsseldorf
Music. Album sheet with allegorical depiction of an enthroned goddess with lyra, surrounded by flowers and trail borders. Illustration draft. Gold-heightened watercolour with pen-and-ink, 1864. Signed and multiply dated „1864“,
„d. 24 Decb. 1864“ and „den 14.Sept.“ as well as marked „Album“ and with the first line of the bride song of the poet
L. Uhland. On teinted laid paper. 26.4 x 38.5 cm. With tiny edge blemishes.
Provenance: Collection Kasimir Hagen, Cologne (not in Lugt).1
1 Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d‘Estampes, La Haye, 1956, Supplément and online. 4.800,-
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Summer 2012
22. JOHANN HEINRICH WILHELM TISCHBEIN, named GOETHE-TISCHBEIN Haina 1751 - 1829 Eutin
Madonna and the infant Jesus with St. Elizabeth and the infant John (The Medici-Madonna). Partially white-heightened
watercolour with drawing in brown pen after a painting of Andrea del Sarto. Marked in pencil. Verso with estate stamp
and collectors mark in brown ink „C.I, 30.“ (not in Lugt).1 On laid paper. Depiction: 41.2 x 28.6 cm (sheet including the
applicated painted paper-frame: 51.8 x 38.4 cm). Marginal brown staining and with needle marks in the corners.
Provenance: Collection of the Grand Dukes of Oldenburg. Drawings by J. H. W. Tischbein, Christie‘s, New York, 22.1.2003.2
1 Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d‘Etampes, La Haye, 1956, Supplément and online.
2 In 2003, the Grand Dukes of Oldenburg‘s collection, which contained previously unseen drawings by J. W. Tischbein,
was auctioned off.
5.800,-
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Summer 2012
23. JOHANN HEINRICH WILHELM TISCHBEIN, named GOETHE-TISCHBEIN Haina 1751 - 1829 Eutin
Hector‘s farewell. Grey washed and partially white-heightened pen-and-ink drawing in brown. Verso originally marked.
On laid paper. 17.5 x 17.5 cm. Marginally foxed.
Provenance: Collection Dr. M.K. Rech, Bonn (Lugt 2745 a and b).1
1 Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d‘Estampes, La Haye, 1956, Supplément and online. 4.800,-
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Summer 2012
24. PHILIPP VEIT Berlin 1793 - 1877 Mainz
Scuffling Italian boys and old lady. Pencil drawing 1840. Suhr ZV 60 (there marked as lost).1 Monogrammed (ligated) and
dated. On strong chamois coloured wove paper. 35.7 x 26.8 cm. Edges slightly browned.
Provenance: Collection G. Engelbrecht (Hamburg), C. Heumann (Leipzig) and A. O. Meyer (Hamburg; Lugt 1148, 2841 a
and 1994).1
1 Norbert Suhr, Philipp Veit. Leben und Werk eines Nazareners, Weinheim, 1991, p. 230.
2 Collection A. O. Meyer, C. G. Boerner auction catalogue CXXIII, Leipzig, 16-18th May 1914, number 841. Arnold Otto
Meyer (1825 - 1913) was a businessman from Hamburg and inherited from his grandfather J. V. Meyer drawings from
famous artists of the 18th Century. He expanded the collection with works by contemporary artists. Meyer knew many of
the artists from the Romantic Era personally; he was particularly close to J. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, A. L. Richter,
M. von Schwind and E. von Steinle. 6.400,-
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Summer 2012
25. THEODOR VERHAS Schwetzingen 1811 - 1872 Heidelberg
The Kranenturm in Bacharach, in the background the ruin of Stahleck. Watercoloured pen-and-ink drawing. Signed. On brownish
wove paper. 18.7 x 23.5 cm. Marginally browned.
Provenance: Southern German private collection.
2.800,-
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Summer 2012
26. CARL FRIEDRICH HEINRICH WERNER Weimar 1808 - 1894 Leipzig
Venice, view on the Piazzetta and the Doge‘s palace. Partially white-heightened watercolour, 1849. Signed, dated and site
marked „Roma“. On teinted wove paper. 30.6 x 42 cm. Edges verso with minimal glue remnants.
The watercolour at hand was shown in 2010/11 in the exhibition „Venedig - Bilder in der deutschen Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts“.1
1 Exhibition catalogue Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe/Städtische Galerie in der Reithalle Paderborn-Schloss Neuhaus
2010/11, p. 208 with colour illustration no. 76.
12.800,-