Harvard Art Museums > 2023.510: Fir Trees Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Fir Trees (Arnold Böcklin) , 2023.510,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 24, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/380999. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu