LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

8.66 in. (22.00 cm.) (height) by 12.60 in. (32.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with the rhombus monogram lower left

Exhibited:

Berlin, Akademie der Künste,. Ausstellung der Sammlung Max Böhm , 1930, no. 60

Literature:

Carl Spitzweg's personal sale register, no. 287 (as. Einsiedler Netz strickend mit Reh ). Eugen Kalkschmidt,. Carl Spitzweg und seine Welt , Munich, 1945, p. 162, cited. Günther Roennefahrt,. Carl Spitzweg: beschreibendes Verzeichnis seiner Gemä lde, Ö ̈lstudien und Aquarelle , Munich, 1960, pp. 109 & 269, no. 1203, illustrated. Siegfried Wichmann,. Carl Spitzweg: Kunst, Kosten und Konflikte , Frankfurt, 1991, p. 336, no. 287. Siegfried Wichmann,. Carl Spitzweg: Verzeichnis der Werke: Gemälde und Aquarelle , Stuttgart, 2002, p. 360, no. 815, catalogued & illustrated

Provenance:

Gustav Kutter, Berlin (purchased from the artist in 1871). Max Böhm, Berlin (by 1930; his sale: Lepke, Berlin, 28 January 1931, lot 58). Private collection, Germany (probably purchased at the above sale; thence by descent). Sale: Sotheby's London, 22 June 2000, lot 128. Private collection, Vienna (purchased at the above sale). Galerie Westenhoff, Hamburg. Purchased by the previous owner from the above; thence by descent