A Ferry on the Königsee, 1827/1839

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Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white chalk, over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 21.9 x 28.9 cm (8 5/8 x 11 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin

Accession Number

2007.111.92

Artists / Makers

Friedrich Gauermann (artist) German, 1807 - 1862

Image Use

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Inscription

at lower right in graphite in a different hand: F. Gauermann; verso, a graphite study for A Ferry on the Königsee (c. 1839?); verso, at top in graphite in a different hand: 779/15 Friedrich Gauermann 1807-1862

Provenance

Fürstlich Hohenzollernsches Museum, Sigmaringen (Lugt 2759). Konrad Diepolder, Munich; purchased 1984 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. 79.