Der Lenz ist angekommen ('Spring is coming'): Children at a cottage gate watching the returning storks, a seated shepherd reading by lambs

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Ludwig Adrian Richter (Dresden 1803-1884)
Der Lenz ist angekommen ('Spring is coming'): Children at a cottage gate watching the returning storks, a seated shepherd reading by lambs
black lead, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watercolour, watermark RUSE & TURNER 1824
7 1/8 x 6 in. (181 x 151 mm.)

刻印

As a woodcut for plate 3 of Beschauliches und Erbauliches, Ein Familien-Bilderbuch ... Dritte Lieferung, Leipzig, 1855 (Hoff & Budde 325).

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拍品專文

Drawn by Richter for the third installment of his series of woodcuts intended to be contemplative ('beschaulich') and edifying ('erbaulich') for a family audience. The composition was revisited by Richter in a watercolour, dated 1870 and with minor differences of detail, now in the Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz, formerly in the collection of Alexander Flinsch; C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 29-30 November 1912, lot 66, illustrated in colour.
We are grateful to Dr. Hinrich Sieveking for his kind help in preparing this note.