LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

20.47 in. (52.00 cm.) (height) by 30.51 in. (77.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed and dated lower left: B. Neher 1861

Condition:

Framed; Relined

Literature:

Boetticher, Friedrich von: Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, vol. II.1, p. 130. Listed under no. 9 with information on provenance and exhibitions;- Pecht, Friedrich: Kunst und Kunstindustrie auf der Weltausstellung von 1867. Pariser Briefe, p. 112/113. According to Boetticher, this painting was commissioned by Ms. von Jobste, the privy councillor's wife, and exhibited at the Paris World Fair of 1867