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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR60.31
People
Hans von Marées, German (Elberfeld, Germany 1837 - 1887 Rome, Italy)
Title
Sketch for Woodland Scene at Dusk
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Entwurf zur Abendlichen Waldszene
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1870
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223306

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
59.5 x 76 cm (23 7/16 x 29 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: on top stretcher, ink on paper, typewritten: 1452.F

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
A von Hildebrand, Munich and Florence. [J. B. Neumann, New York]. Kurt H. and Erich O. Grunebaum, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1960.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Kurt H. and Erich O. Grunebaum
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
BR60.31
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Julius Meier-Graefe, Hans von Marées: Sein Leben und Sein Werk, R. Piper & Co Verlag (Munich and Leipzig, 1909), cat. no. 151, p. 126-127, b/w illus
  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, "The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard: the Germanic Tradition", Apollo (May 1978), vol. 107, no. 195, pp. 403-413, p. 413
  • Uta Gerlach-Laxner, Hans von Marées: Katalog seiner Gemälde, Prestel (Munich, 1980), cat. no. 101, p. 113, b/w illus.
  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 43, repr.
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 367, p. 308, repr.
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 207

Exhibition History

  • 19th- and 20th-Century Paintings and Sculpture from the Museum's Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/11/1980 - 08/31/1980
  • German Painting 1760-1960: A New Installation, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 12/20/1983 - 02/19/1984

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