Eduard von Grützner (1846-1925), Krieger und Mönch mit Hund im Weinkeller, oil study on canvas, indistinct incised signature lower left, various stamps of the Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim on the reverse, including inventory number 90, the present study came into the possession of the city of Mannheim in 1883 with the title "Richard Löwenherz und der Einsiedler" and was later incorporated into the holdings of the Städtische Kunsthalle. In 1954 it was sold through the Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Stuttgart. Literature: Balogh, László, Eduard von Grützner 1846-1925. A Munich genre painter of the Gründerzeit. Mainburg 1991, p. 235, WVZ no. 645 "Falstaff mit Mönch und Pudel" (with illus.) (details based on cat. Neumeister 2018), 22 x 27 cm, framed 28 x 33 cm

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