Kobell, Wilhelm von

Description:

Mannheim 1766 - München 1853
24 x 38 cm
Cattle drive at an Upper Bavarian lake. Pencil, pen and watercolour/paper, signed and dated 1803 lower right.
Slg. Senator Dr. Gwinner, Frankfurt (Main); Sale Karl & Faber, Munich Oct. 2/3 1951, lot 1622 and there acquired by the family of the present owner. Cf. the very similar version published in Siegfried Wichmann, Wilhelm von Kobell, Monographie und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke, Munich 1970, no. 745 with fig. ("Hirtin mit Rindern und Ziege vor weiter Flußlandschaft").