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33rd Fine Art Auction | 15. September 2012

AUCTION RECORDS

162   Carl Gustav Carus, A swan amidst reed at moonlight, beating its wings. 1852.

Carl Gustav Carus 1789 Leipzig – 1869 Dresden

Charcoal drawing on yellowgreyish paper, partly heightened white and grey. Completely mounted on thin cardboard. A mounted paper label bottom right, thereon signed "Carus", dated and descibed "Zum 11. Sept(em)be(r) 1852". Framed.

Provenance: privat Saxon ownership, goddaughter of Margarete Schwerdtner; previous belonging to Margarete Schwerdtner, foster child by Caroline Cäcilia Carus.

We thank Mr. Dirk Gedlich, Dresden, for helpfull information.

Sheet partly cut to the drawing edge. The border areas with isolated with minimal to smaller lesions of the paper. A small watermark top center. The label with a tiny brownish trace of glue.

Blatt teilweise bis zum Darstellungsrand beschnitten. Kleine Atelierspur in der Wolkenpartie o.re. Die Randpartien vereinzelt mit minimalen bis kleineren Papierläsionen und mit einer unscheinbaren Wasserspur o.Mi. Das klebemontierte Papieretikett mit eine

Bl. 22,8 x 19,4 cm, Ra. 24,4 x 20,3 cm.

limit price
5.000 €
sold at
58.000 €
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