LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

40.55 in. (103.00 cm.) (height) by 50.79 in. (129.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed G. JAKOBIDES upper right

Exhibited:

Probably, Berlin, Academy of Arts,. LVII Ausstellung der königlichen Akademie der Künste, 1884, no. 312, (as. Der Unersättliche

Literature:

Kunstchronik , Leipzig, 27 November 1884, p. 126, cited. . Kunstchronik , Leipzig, 11 February 1886, p. 317 (engraving by Doris Raab cited). . Deutsche illustrierte Zeitung , 1886, illustrated. . Moderne Kunst in Meisterholzschnitten nach Gemälden berühmter Meister der Gegenwart , Berlin, 1887, p. 10, fig. 66. Friedrich von Boetticher,. Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts , Dresden, 1974, p. 636, no. 8. Olga Mentzafou-Polyzou,. Jakobides , Athens, 1999, p. 339, no. 69, catalogued

Provenance:

Galerie Wimmer & Co., Munich. Chester Thorne, Thornwood Castle, Tacoma, WA (by. circa 1910; Chester Thorne was a co-founder of the Port of Tacoma in Washington State. He commissioned Thornewood Castle, a Tudor Gothic mansion built around an Elizabethan manor house which he had dismantled and shipped, brick by brick, from England. Architect, Kirtland Kelsey Cutter was in charge of the project, which took three years to build, from 1908-11); thence by descent to the late owner