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Franz Krüger

Radegast 1797 – 1857 Berlin

The Wife of Alopäus.

Pencil and chalk, heightened with white, on brown paper. 32,8 × 18,3 cm (12 ⅞ × 7 ¼ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Franz Krüger. The Wife of Alopäus.

Estimate:

EUR 800

 

- 1,000

USD 942

 

- 1,180

Sold for:

2,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2017

19th Century Art, Wednesday, 29.11.2017

Information

Pencil and chalk, heightened with white, on brown paper. 32,8 × 18,3 cm (12 ⅞ × 7 ¼ in.). In the left margin inscribed: "Arm etwas feiner". Lower left (faintly legible) inscribed: Allopeus. In the lower left corner inscribed: 144. Slightly squared. Small stain lower right.

We would like to thank Andrea Langenberger, C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, for kindly providing additional information regarding provenance.

Cäsar von Dachröden (died 1882) / Rittmeister v. Plessen, Berlin-Westend (at the latest 1927) / von Arnim (until 1942) / Ernst Henke, Essen (acquired 1942 in the auction at Boerner, until 1974, thence by descent to the present owner)

Walter Weidmann: Franz Krüger. Der Mann und das Werk. Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, no year (1927), ill. p. 159 / Auction catalogue 206: Deutsche Handzeichnungen des XIX. Jahrhunderts aus verschiedenem Besitz. [...]. Leipzig, C. G. Boerner, 19.2.1942, cat. no. 185, ill. on the cover and pl. 19

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