ID 1122167
Lot 512 | EMANUEL LEUTZE (1816-1868)
Estimate value
$ 5 000 – 10 000
MELENIE
signed and dated EG Leutze / Nov 1839 (lower right), titled, signed and dated again "Melenie" / E.G. Leutze / Painted / 1839 (on reverse)
oil on canvas
39 7⁄8 x 25 ¼ in.
Painted in November 1839
Provenance
Chas. Toppan, Philadelphia, circa 1843
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lorenz Noll Art Gallery, San Francisco, California
Graville Elkan Libby
Gift of Judith Libby to the Wethersfield Historical Society, Wethersfield, Connecticut, 2016
Literature
Charles G. Leland, "E.G. Leutze", Sartain's Union Magazine (November 1851), pp. 420-21.
Anna W. Rutledge, Cumulative Record of Exhibition Catalogues - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1807-1870; The Society of Artists 1800-1814; The Artists' Fund Society 1835-1845 (Philadelphia, 1955), 1843, no. 17.
Barbara S. Groseclose, Emanuel Leutze, 1816-1868: Freedom is the only King (Washington, D.C., 1975), p. 72, no. 17.
Exhibited
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1843.
| Artist: | Emanuel Leutze (1816 - 1868) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Emanuel Leutze (1816 - 1868) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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