The European Art Sale Part I

Moritz von Schwind

Die Plejaden (The Pleiades)

Auction Closed

January 27, 10:47 PM GTNN

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Canadian collects ion

Moritz von Schwind

Austrian

1804 - 1871

Die Plejaden (The Pleiades)

oil on canvas

diameter canvas : 31½ in.; 80 cm.

diameter framed: 38¼ in.; 97.2 cm.

Dr. Theodor Demmer collects ion, Frankfurt am Main (in 1906)
Private collects ion, Cuernavaca, Mexico (by 1956)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Otto Weigmann, Schwind. Des Meisters Werke in 1265 Abbildungen, Stuttgart & Leipzig, 1906, p. 356, illustrated

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