Oscar von Alvensleben (attributed), Four Forest Studies. About 1880. Oscar von Alvensleben1831 Benkendorf - 1903 Dresden. Chalk drawings with graphite and charcoal pencil, sparsely heightened with white. Unsigned. Each inscribed in pencil by another artist on verso. Mounted in passepartout with full margins at the right margin. Slightly creased and finger-marked. Partly with small brownish spots, margins trimmed unevenly. Dimensions: 20.5 x 29 cm, Psp. 31 x 44.5 cm. Oscar von Alvensleben 1831 Benkendorf - 1903 Dresden 1866-74 Studies at the academy of arts Dresden. Afterwards numerous study trips, among others to Spain. Later he made watercolour paintings from the pencil drawings he made there. Von Aversleben is especially known for his landscape paintings.

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