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Lot 3205 - A184 19th Century Paintings - Friday, 23. March 2018, 05.00 PM

JOHAN CHRISTIAN DAHL

(Bergen 1788–1857 Dresden)
Blick auf die Elbe vom Cosels Garten bei Dresden. 1822.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower centre left on the stone: Dahl 1822.
62.3 × 97.9 cm.

Provenance:
- Collection of Mr. Elliot, Boston, 1822.
- Sale: Sotheby's, London, 19.6.1991, Lot 241.
- Swiss Private Collection.

Exhibited:
Dresden, 1822, No. 598.

Literature:
- Der Gesellschafter, Berlin, 13.9.1822, 146th sheet, p. 692.
- Artistisches Notizenblatt, Dresden, 5.10.1822, No. 19, p. 75.
- Wiener Zeitschrift für Kunst, Literatur, Theater und Mode, Vienna, 24.10.1822, No. 128, p. 1033.
- Brockhaus 1824, vol.1, p. 2.
- Lødrup Bang, Marie: Johan Christian Dahl 1788–1857. Life and Works, Oslo 1987, vol. 2, No. 377 (illustrated as sketch), p. 137.


We are grateful to Prof. Helmut Börsch-Supan for confirming the authenticity of the present work on the basis of a photograph. According to Prof. Börsch-Supan, this painting is the landscape mentioned in the catalogue raisonné for which Marie Lødrup Bang in 1987 had only a drawing available of the same landscape detail.


CHF 30 000 / 40 000 | (€ 30 930 / 41 240)

Sold for CHF 72 500 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.