Description
Carl Spitzweg, 1808 München – 1885 ebenda
SHRINE IN THE FOREST WITH APPROACHING MAIDEN Watercolor on paper. 16 x 23 cm. Signed lower center. With estate stamp verso. In ebonized profile frame. A sunlit path leading out of the forest under tall trees in a clearing, on which a maiden moves into the foreground, where there is a chapel with a triptych and sculptures. Provenance: Adler Collection, Switzerland. Private collection, Bavaria, since 1992. Literature: For Spitzweg's paintings of forest and wayside chapels with female staffage, see: Siegfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg, Verzeichnis der Werke, Stuttgart 2002, pp. 427-430, catalog nos. 1053-1061. (1400113) (13)
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