(1831 Ins 1910)

Die Ährenträgerin (Glaneuse) 1872.

Oil on panel.

Signed lower right: Anker.

111.5 × 50.5 cm.

Provenance:
- Galerie Neupert, Zurich.
- Private collection, Langnau i. E., 1962.
- Dobiaschofsky auction, 13.05.2005, Lot 38.
- Swiss private collection, acquired from the above auction.

Exhibited:
- Basel 1937, Albert Anker, Kunsthalle Basel, 3.4.–17.51937, No. 234.
- Konolfingen 1954, exhibition, Albert Anker, Konolfingen, 2.–23.5.1954, No. 68.

Literature:
- Albert Anker, Max Huggler and Kunstmuseum Bern: Albert Anker. Katalog der Gemälde und Ölstudien, Bern 1962, No. 155.
- Sandor Kuthy and Hans A. Lüthy: Albert Anker, Zwei Autoren über einen Maler, Zurich 1980, p. 96.
- Sandor Kuthy and Therese Bhattacharya-Stettler: Albert Anker. Werkkatalog der Gemälde und Ölstudien, Basel 1995, p. 116, No. 165 (with ill.).

This work was originally the upper part of a cabinet door painted by Anker in a country house in St-Blaise.