Spitzweg, Carl

Description:

München 1808 - 1885
21 x 14 cm, o. R.
Smoking Oriental, sitting in front of a house wall. Oil on cigar box wood, transferred on panel. Verso exhibition label Haus der Kunst München and stamp "Fritz Sedlmayr, 8 München 2, Marsstr. 17".
Southern German private collection. Acquired by the father of the present owner in 1975 from the Alexander Gebhardt Gallery for Old and New Art in Munich. Fritz Sedlmeier, Munich, is listed as the previous owner on a supplementary sheet to the invoice. Lit.: Siegfried Wichmann, Orientdarstellungen im Werk von Carl Spitzweg. Documentation , Starnberg-Munich 1975, cover image and no. 29 with fig. Siegfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg und die französischen Zeichner, Ausst.-Kat. Haus der Kunst, München 1985, p. 227 with fig. no. 340, p. 457. Siegfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg, Verzeichnis der Werke Gemälde und Aquarelle, Stuttgart 2002, catalogue raisonné p. 240, no. 421 with fig.