Auction 319: Old Masters & 19th Century Art | 17 November 2023
Wilhelm Busch

So-called Madonna (Young woman with child)

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Wilhelm Busch
1832 Wiedensahl – Mechtshausen 1908
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Oil on cardboard. (Around 1870). 30.9 x 11.3 cm. Framed. With a hand-written confirmation of authenticity by Otto Nöldeke, Merktshausen am Harz (?), dated 16.3.1908, on the reverse.

Result: € 4,064*

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Details

Gmelin 278.

Description

According to Gmelin, this work is a freely conceived, laterally reversed version of the motif of Peter Paul Rubens’ “Madonna in a Wreath of Flowers” (Alte Pinakothek, Munich, inv. no. 331). The oil sketch was probably made in connection with the design of a chalice cloth for Johanna Keßler, done in colours. On the reverse is a handwritten confirmation of authenticity by Otto Nöldeke, Merktshausen am Harz (?), dated 16.3.1908.

Period

19th century

Technique

Oil

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