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Moritz Karl Friedrich Muller*(German, b.1807)

Eine Sennerin bei Lampen unter Kienspanlicht, ihren Liebsten erwartend

Details
Moritz Karl Friedrich Muller*(German, b.1807)
Eine Sennerin bei Lampen unter Kienspanlicht, ihren Liebsten erwartend
signed 'M. Müller' upper center left
oil on panel
13¾ x 12¼in. (35 x 31cm.)
Provenance
E. O. Ford, sale; Christie's, March 29, 1877, lot 41 (bt. Hewitt)
Literature
F. von Boetticher, Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Hofheim-am-Taunus, 1974, II, i, p. 104, no. 7
Exhibited
Dresden, Kunstverein, 1837

Lot Essay

This work, unusual in Müller's oeuvre, shows the influence of Gottfried Schalcken, whose works the artist would have seen during his studies in Dresden in the 1820s. In 1868, became a member of the Dresden Academy.