3022 - ALBERT ANKER

ALBERT ANKER (1831 Ins – 1910) Anna and Maurice Anker in the Orchard. 1875. Oil on panel. On the reverse is a copy of the certificate of authenticity issued by Anna Louise Oser-Anker on May 12, 1942. 17 × 24.5 cm. Provenance: - Private collection, Louise Oser-Anker, Basel. - Private collection, Mulhouse, 1962. - Private collection, Küsnacht, 1981. - By descent to the present private collection. Exhibited: - Bern 1931, Albert Anker (1831–1910). Centennial Exhibition, Kunstmuseum Bern, June 20–August 23, 1931, no. 173, as “Mrs. Anker and Her Son, 1875” (label on the reverse). - Basel 1937, Albert Anker, Kunsthalle Basel, April 3–May 17, 1937, no. 153, as “Mrs. Anker and Her Son.” - Winterthur 1982, Anker in His Time, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, January 16–March 7, 1982, as “Figures in the Garden” (label on the reverse). Bibliography: - Exhibition catalog Albert Anker (1831–1910). Centennial Exhibition, Bern 1931, p. 17, no. 173. - Exhibition catalog Albert Anker, Basel 1937, p. 25, no. 153. - Albert Anker, Max Huggler, and Kunstmuseum Bern: Albert Anker. Catalog of Paintings and Oil Studies, Bern 1962, no. 498, as “In the Orchard” (ill.). - Sandor Kuthy and Therese Bhattacharya-Stettler: Albert Anker. Catalog Raisonné of Paintings and Oil Studies, Basel 1995, p. 275, no. 703 (ill.).