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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.510
People
Arnold Böcklin, Swiss (Basel, Switzerland 1827 - 1901 San Domenico di Fièsole, Italy)
Title
Fir Trees
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Tannen
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1847
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/380999

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, white opaque watercolor, and oil [?] on brown paper
Dimensions
sight: 29 × 44 cm (11 7/16 × 17 5/16 in.)
frame: 54.5 × 69 cm (21 7/16 × 27 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: old backboard, upper left, graphite over printed blue border and dotted line: 41
  • inscription: old backboard, bottom center, black ink on adhesive label: Arnold Böcklin, „Tannen“, Sepiazeichnung / m.l. Entwürf zůr „Alpenlandschaft, Oelstune [?] / vom Somer [m with line over it] 1847;" - vgl. H. Schmid ' Beilage / zŭm Böcklin + Albeřy [?] _ vierte Folge 1901. pg 17 / 1914.n.25 [? possibly 1914.vi.25] A Salis [?][followed by signature mark]
  • inscription: old backboard, lower right, black ink: Sepiastudie / von / Arnold Böcklin. / zū einer „Alpenlandschaft" von 1847 / (siehe Böcklinbiographie von H. Schmid. pag. 17.) / ruck [?] / ali Audenkeur [?] on Autulen v. Salis nach / seinem [?] Tod [next word illegible and crossed out] au mich geschenkt / 1923. _ / R. Hau... [?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Walter Böcklin, Basel. Arnold von Salis-Haegler, Antistes, Basel, 1902, by descent; to Hans von Salis-Sarasin, Basel, 1923, by descent; to Philis von Salis-Sarasin, Basel, 1953, by descent; to Rosemarie Lejeune-von Salis, Pratteln, 1987. [1] [Galerie Vogler, Basel, June 1, 2013, lot 276]. [August Laube, Zürich], sold; to Peter Soriano, New York, 2015, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Notes

[1] The drawing was listed for sale at Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, June 16, 2011 and bought in

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter F. Soriano ’81
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.510
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Heinrich Alfred Schmid, ed., Verzeichnis der Werke Arnold Böcklins, Alphons Bruckmann (Munich, 1903), p. 4, cat no. 53.o
  • Mai-Austellung / Böcklin-Austellung, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Basel (Basel, May 20, 1917 - June 10, 1917), p. 4, cat no. 21
  • Hans Holenweg and Franz Zelger, Arnold Böcklin: Die Zeichnungen, Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag and Hirmer Verlag (Basel, 1998), p. 84, cat. no. 130, repr.
  • Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, auct. cat., Galerie Kornfeld (Bern, June 16, 2011), p. 36, lot no. 245, repr.
  • Alte Meister Graphik, Moderne Graphik, Alte Drucke, Zeichnungen, Helvetica / Old Master Prints, Modern Prints, Rare Books, Drawings, Helvetica, auct. cat., August Laube (Zürich, 2015), p. 34, cat no. 29, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Böcklin-Austellung, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 05/20/1917 - 07/01/1917

Verification Level

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