Three Armed Riders Escorting Prisoners near Reims, 1825

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Medium

watercolor over graphite, with borderlines in pen and black ink, on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 27.9 x 33.7 cm (11 x 13 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.105

Artists / Makers

Peter von Hess (artist) German, 1792 - 1871

Image Use

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Inscription

signed and dated at lower right in gray ink: Peter Hess. 1825; at top right in black: 10 [very small]; on milestone in gray ink: 3 Lieues a RHEIMS

Provenance

Unknown collection, possibly Kunstverein Munich (KVM, not in Lugt). (sale, Hugo Ruef, Munich, 23 November 1972). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: no. 70, under no. 69.