Karl Blechen

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Karl Blechen
1798-1840
A Ruin in a Landscape with a Milestone and a Stone Cross
1839
Pencil on light brown wove paper.
7 1/16 x 8 15/16 inches (190 x 228 mm)
Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund.
1985.65
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Watermark: none.

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Monogrammed and dated at upper right, "B.d.5-Januar 39".

Provenance: 
Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg.
Bibliography: 

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 319.

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