Karl Scheffler: Erinnerung an Caspar David Friedrich. In: Kunst und Künstler, H. 21, 1923, p. 99, ill. / Werner Sumowski: Caspar David Friedrich-Studien. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner-Verlag, 1970, cat. no. 2, p. 158 and 182 / Marianne Bernhard (ed.): Das gesamte graphische Werk. Munich, Rogner & Bernhard, 1974, p. 92, ill. / auction 1087: 19th Century. Cologne, Lempertz, 20.5.2017, cat. no. 1505, ill.
Pen and India ink in grey, washed, on brown paper. 9,3 × 16,8 cm
(3 ⅝ × 6 ⅝ in.). Inscribed lower right: L. [sic] D. Friedrich fec. Sketch of a wooden railing on the mount cardboard left on he reverse, inscibed on the right: C. P. No. 311. Catalogue raisonné: Börsch-Supan/Jähnig 18 / Grummt 142. [3212] Framed
Provenance
Private Collection, Berlin (1922) / Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin (1923) / Rüdiger of Goltz, Berlin/Düsseldorf / Private Collection, Saxony
Karl Scheffler: Erinnerung an Caspar David Friedrich. In: Kunst und Künstler, H. 21, 1923, p. 99, ill. / Werner Sumowski: Caspar David Friedrich-Studien. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner-Verlag, 1970, cat. no. 2, p. 158 and 182 / Marianne Bernhard (ed.): Das gesamte graphische Werk. Munich, Rogner & Bernhard, 1974, p. 92, ill. / auction 1087: 19th Century. Cologne, Lempertz, 20.5.2017, cat. no. 1505, ill.