Carl Rottmann (Handschuhsheim 1798-1850 Munich)
View of the Bay of Genoa
pencil, watercolor
11½ x 20¾ in. (293 x 530 mm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Lepke, Berlin, 22 May 1911, lot 530.
Literature
E. Bierhaus-Rödiger, Carl Rottman 1797-1850 Monographie und kritischer Werkkatalog, Munich, 1978, p.439, no. V45 (as a lost work).
Lot Essay
A preparatory study for a painting dated 1826 now in Heidelberg, Kurpfälziche Museum (C. Heilmann, E. Rödiger-Diruf, Landschaft als Geschichte: Carl Rottmann 1797-1850, Munich, 1998).