Lot 3457 - A176 Old Master Drawings - Tuesday, 22. March 2016, 11.00 AM
CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH
(Greifswald 1774-1840 Dresden)
Study of a tree, 18 April 1803
Pencil on wove paper with brown ground.
Dated in pencil at left lower edge: den 18t April 1803. Numbered in pencil on the lower right: 6. Old inscription on the reverse: Caspar David Friedrich. Von der Kunsthalle Mannheim erworben am 24. April 1919. Heinrich Sachs.
20.5 x 13.2 cm (the upper and lower right corners cut and with old supplements).
Provenance:
- Kunsthalle Mannheim (until April 1919)
- Heinrich Sachs (1894-1946), acquired 24 April 1919
- Kunstkabinett Ketterer, Stuttgart 1951
- Swiss private collection
CHF 25 000 / 35 000 | (€ 25 770 / 36 080)
Sold for CHF 65 300 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.