Fountain and Pergola in Italy

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso, in ink: F. Petzholdt

Provenance

Probably Gottlieb Collin, the artist’s brother in law; probably by descent to his family. Private collection, Denmark [see document regarding the painting from Galerie Jean-François Heim, in curatorial file]; sold in auction in Denmark to Tom Jensen [according to an email from Jean-François Heim to Martha Wolff dated August 1, 2002, in curatorial file; and correspondence with Knut Buchman]; sold by him to Galerie Jean-François Heim, Paris, by 2002 [according to the email cited above]; purchased by the Art Institute with funds from the Connie and Donald Patterson Endowment, 2002.

Publications

Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 2002-2003 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), p. 44 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Ernest Christian Frederick Petzholdt (Danish, 1805–1838)
Date: 1830–35
Medium: Oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Dimensions: 39 × 50 cm (15 1/2 × 20 in.); Framed: 50.8 × 62.3 cm (20 × 24 1/2 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: oil on paper
Style: nineteenth century
Place: Denmark
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Connie and Donald Patterson Endowment
Accession no.: 2002.377

More by Ernest Christian Frederick Petzholdt in museum collections

German Landscape with View toward a Broad Valley
Ernest Christian Frederick Petzholdt
ca. 1829–30 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00016148

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.