Children and Goats Resting by a Felled Tree, 1868

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown and some gray ink with watercolor and gouache, a few touches of varnish (gum arabic?) on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 16 x 23.3 cm (6 5/16 x 9 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.28

Artists / Makers

Ludwig Richter (artist) German, 1803 - 1884

Image Use

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Inscription

signed and dated at lower right in pen and brown ink: L Richter 1868; by a later hand, verso bottom center in graphite: 4

Provenance

Alexander Flinsch [1834-1912], Berlin; (his sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 29-30 November 1912, no. 63). Princes of Liechtenstein, Vaduz (Lugt 4398). (Galerie Fischer, Lucerne). David Lachenmann, Munich; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased by NGA 2007.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Flinsch, Alexander
Galeries Fischer
Lachenmann, David
Liechtenstein, Princes of
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 26, 38, no. 103, under no. 98.

Bibliography

1922: Hoff, Johann Friedrich. Adrian Ludwig Richter, Maler und Radierer: Verzeichnis seines gesamten graphischen Werkes. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. Edited by Karl Budde et al. Freiburg im Breisgau, 1922: 3549.

2007: Heise, Brigitte. Zum Sehen geboren: Handzeichnungen der Goethezeit und des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Sammlung Dräger/Stubbe. Leipzig, 2007: 274.