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Study for the Engraving Thalkirchen, from series Views of
Provenance
Estate of the artist [Wichmann 1970]. Private collection, Bavaria, by 1966 [Munich 1966]. Sold, Karl & Faber, Munich, June 7-8, 1967, lot 356. Private collection, by 1970 [Wichmann 1970]. Sold by the Paul Drey Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1974.
Exhibition history
Munich, Galerie Heinemann, "Münchner Malerie um 1800," 1920, cat. 161. Munich, Haus der Kunst, "Wilhelm von Kobell," June 25-August 21, 1966, cat. 155; also traveled to the Mannheimer Kunstverein, September 28-November 13, 1966.
Publications
Siegfried Wichmann, Wilhelm von Kobell, Monographie und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke (Munich, 1970), p. 402, no. 1113 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Wilhelm Alexander Wolfgang von Kobell / German, 1766-1855
- Date
- c. 1818
- Medium
- Pen and black ink over graphite on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 10.7 × 17.7 cm (4 1/4 × 7 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased from Paul Drey Gallery, New York. Everett D. Graff Fund Income, Print and Drawing Club Fund
- Accession no.
- 1974.24
More by Wilhelm Alexander Wolfgang von Kobell in museum collections
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