The Happy Family with Children Playing

Johann Eleazar Schenau

Artist, German, 1737 - 1806

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Adolf Glüenstein [born 1849], Hamburg (Lugt 123); (sale Frankfurt, Prestel, 1-3 January 1920, lot 135); (Franz Meyer, Antiquariat, Dresden); Richard von Kühlmann [1873-1948], Germany; (Katrin Bellinger, Munich); purchased by NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1997

  • Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 112.

Bibliography

2001

  • Robison, Andrew, "Later American Collectors of Later German Drawings," Master Drawings 39, no. 2, Summer 2001, 184, 185-186, fig. 15.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Schenau

Watermarks

fleur-de-lis

Wikidata ID

Q64581899

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