Des Pfarrers Tochter von Taubenhein (The Parson's Daughter from Taubenhain), 1839

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Medium

watercolor, gouache, and shell gold with graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 36.9 × 26 cm (14 1/2 × 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.132

Artists / Makers

Eugen Napoleon Neureuther (artist) German, 1806 - 1882

Image Use

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Inscription

signed and dated at lower right in graphite: E. Neureuther vin. 1839; beneath the center image in red ink, the second stanza of Bürger's ballad (repeated as stanza 36): Es schleicht ein Flämchen am Unkenteich/Das flimmert und flammert so traurig./Da ist ein Plätzchen, da wächst kein Gras; Das wird vom Thau und vom Regen nicht nasz/Da wehen die Lüftchen so schaurig. (A small flame flits along the frog pond./gloomily fading and flaring up again./It marks a spot where no grass grows,/one never wet from dew or rain,/but swept by eerie gusts of air.); at bottom in red ink: Des Pfarrers Tochter von Taubenhein v. Bürger.

Provenance

Dr. Georg Blohm, Hamburg. (sale, Galerie Commeter, Hamburg, 7-10 November 1927, no. 407, pl. XVIII). (sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 6 May 1950, no. 1247, pl. XII). (Galerie Bartsch & Chariau, Munich); acquired 1982 by 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. 95.

Bibliography

1984: Von Runge bis Leibl, Deutsche Zeichner des 19. Jahrhunderts, Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich, 1984, 329, variants, 1b.