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

1839

Eugen Napoleon Neureuther

Associated Names
Eugen Napoleon Neureuther

Artist, German, 1806 - 1882

This painting features various detailed and colorful scenes containing romantic and natural elements. The composition includes sections depicting different moments clued together with floral and architectural motifs. 

The top section shows a landscape with a castle and mythical figures. The central panel shows a male and female figure under a flowering vine archway. Flanking them are decorative images of women and floral forms. Below this is a text block surrounded by floral designs. 

The lower part displays windswept trees suggesting motion and nature's power. The painting is enclosed within a border featuring floral and vine motifs. It reflects 19th-century romanticism with attention to detail, storytelling, and connection to nature.

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

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.

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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.

Inscriptions

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.

Watermarks

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Wikidata ID

Q64560032

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