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LOTS 217-226
ALBUMS RELATING TO TISCHBEIN'S LATER WORK, INCLUDING AN ALBUM OF HEADS OF HOMERIC HEROS
Die Stärke des Mannes: The Strength of Man
Sehen weibt gedanken (Observation begets ideas): an album detailing the arrangement of pictures to be hung in Tischbein's Stärke des Mannes room in the Schloss at Oldenburg
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Die Stärke des Mannes: The Strength of Man
Sehen weibt gedanken (Observation begets ideas): an album detailing the arrangement of pictures to be hung in Tischbein's Stärke des Mannes room in the Schloss at Oldenburg
inscribed with the title on a label attached to the cover, the front endpaper with a pasted sheet inscribed with the directions for the arrangement of ten paintings for the Stärke des Mannes&i room at Oldenburg, and a associated sheet with analogous text and a diagram showing the arrangement, the album of twelve leaves with eight drawings inserted to face inscribed commentaries:
1. Mutter, die das Kind laufen lehrt: A mother teaching an infant to walk, a man on a couch beyond
2. Zwei Knaben werden einem Weltweisen zugeführt: A mother presents two boys to a wise man for their education
3. Orpheus: Orpheus playing his lyre to three reclining figures, a doe and a lion to the left
4. Die alte Greis (The Old Man): A seated old man playing with an infant, a woman kneeling to the left
5. Pflicht des Mannes (The Duties of Man): A figure holding an anchor kneeling under the weight of a heavy burden, supported by two women and with a winged figure beyond removing stones from his pack
6. Die Stärke des Mannes (The Strength of Man), signed by Carl Andreas August Goos, after Tischbein
7. Pflicht des Mannes (The Duties of Man): A nude warrior with sword and shield protects a girl, with an elderly couple and an infant by a tree beyond
8. The Duties of Woman: A kneeling woman attended by three children
A further two leaves inscribed with commentaries describing compositions illustrating the Power of Fate, with the images lacking
(1-5) black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white on light brown paper, in contemporary mounts (6-8) black chalk, pen and brown ink
The album: 17 x 11 in. (433 x 278 mm.); The drawings: (1-5) each 8 1/8 x 13 in. (208 x 331 mm.); (6) 6 x 7½ in. (150 x 192 mm.); (7) 4 1/8 x 3 1/8 in. (103 x 99 mm.); (8) 5 1/8 x 4 1/8 in. (131 x 124 mm.); and An associated drawing for Tischbein's Hektors Abschied von Andromache (Hectors farewell to Andromache) destined for the Stärke des Mannes room, and A study for the figure of Andromache (11)
Sehen weibt gedanken (Observation begets ideas): an album detailing the arrangement of pictures to be hung in Tischbein's Stärke des Mannes room in the Schloss at Oldenburg
inscribed with the title on a label attached to the cover, the front endpaper with a pasted sheet inscribed with the directions for the arrangement of ten paintings for the Stärke des Mannes&i room at Oldenburg, and a associated sheet with analogous text and a diagram showing the arrangement, the album of twelve leaves with eight drawings inserted to face inscribed commentaries:
1. Mutter, die das Kind laufen lehrt: A mother teaching an infant to walk, a man on a couch beyond
2. Zwei Knaben werden einem Weltweisen zugeführt: A mother presents two boys to a wise man for their education
3. Orpheus: Orpheus playing his lyre to three reclining figures, a doe and a lion to the left
4. Die alte Greis (The Old Man): A seated old man playing with an infant, a woman kneeling to the left
5. Pflicht des Mannes (The Duties of Man): A figure holding an anchor kneeling under the weight of a heavy burden, supported by two women and with a winged figure beyond removing stones from his pack
6. Die Stärke des Mannes (The Strength of Man), signed by Carl Andreas August Goos, after Tischbein
7. Pflicht des Mannes (The Duties of Man): A nude warrior with sword and shield protects a girl, with an elderly couple and an infant by a tree beyond
8. The Duties of Woman: A kneeling woman attended by three children
A further two leaves inscribed with commentaries describing compositions illustrating the Power of Fate, with the images lacking
(1-5) black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white on light brown paper, in contemporary mounts (6-8) black chalk, pen and brown ink
The album: 17 x 11 in. (433 x 278 mm.); The drawings: (1-5) each 8 1/8 x 13 in. (208 x 331 mm.); (6) 6 x 7½ in. (150 x 192 mm.); (7) 4 1/8 x 3 1/8 in. (103 x 99 mm.); (8) 5 1/8 x 4 1/8 in. (131 x 124 mm.); and An associated drawing for Tischbein's Hektors Abschied von Andromache (Hectors farewell to Andromache) destined for the Stärke des Mannes room, and A study for the figure of Andromache (11)