Adolf Zimmermann

1828

Carl Oesterley

Associated Names
Carl Oesterley

Artist, German, 1805 - 1891

The image shows a person with short, light-colored hair wearing a coat and a cap. The person is facing forward with a calm expression. The background is plain. There is an inscription to the left of the person with the date "1828" and the word "Rome."

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Pastor Oesterley, Arbergen/Bremen (not in Lugt). Hans Geller [b. 1894], Dresden. (Galerie Siegfried Billesberger, Moosinning near Munich). Purchased 19 May 1992 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: 29, no. 82.

Bibliography

1947

  • Geller, Hans. Ernste Künstler, fröhliche Menschen, Zeichnungen und Aufzeichnungen deutscher Künstler in Rom zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts, Joseph Führich und seine Freunde. Munich, 1947: no. IV (reprod.).

1952

  • Geller, Hans. Die Bildnisse der deutschen Künstler in Rom, 1800 - 1830. Berlin, 1952: 118, no. 1595, fig. 579.

1957

  • Senf, Renate. Das künstlerische Werk von Carl Oesterley. Göttingen, 1957: 51-52, 149, no. 38, fig. 9.

1993

  • Galerie Siegfried Billesberger. Katalog 25: Deutsche Zeichnungen 1600 bis 1900. Moosinning near Munich, 1993: 50-51, no. 28.

Inscriptions

signed and dated at left in brown ink: 18 cOe [in monogram] 28/Rom.; below that in graphite: Maler Zimerman in Dresden.

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64537989

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