Three illustrations associated with Goethe's Wilhelm Tischbeins Idyllen:
1. Eight girl's heads with golden haloes
2. Seven girl's heads in a purple halo
3. Five girl's heads with golden haloes above a sunset across a wide bay

Three illustrations associated with Goethe's Wilhelm Tischbeins Idyllen: 1. Eight girl's heads with golden haloes 2. Seven girl's heads in a purple halo 3. Five girl's heads with golden haloes above a sunset across a wide bay

细节
Three illustrations associated with Goethe's Wilhelm Tischbeins Idyllen:
1. Eight girl's heads with golden haloes
2. Seven girl's heads in a purple halo
3. Five girl's heads with golden haloes above a sunset across a wide bay
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, watercolor, watermark PRO PATRIA (3), on milled paper (1-2)
9 7/8 x 8 3/8 in. (250 x 210 mm.); 9¾ x 8 1/8 in. (248 x 207 mm.); 14 x 8¼ in. (356 x 210 mm.) (3)

拍品专文

The compositions are related to Tischbein's pictures for the Oldenburg Idyllenzyklus, delivered to Duke Peter of Oldenburg in 1821. Tischbein sent Goethe watercolors of these compositions in May 1821, and he used them as the starting point for his verse cycle Wilhelm Tischbeins Idyllen.