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Christian Friedrich Gille
1805-1899
ca. 1850
Oil on paper.
8 3/4 x 12 1/8 inches (222 x 308 mm)
Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009.
2009.400:66
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Inscribed on verso at lower right in graphite: ?7; at lower left in graphite: N6146 CHR. F. Gille 2103/17.
Provenance:
Johann Friedrich Lahmann (1858-1937), Dresden; his estate sale, Berlin, Rudolph Lepke, 27-29 April 1938, lot 365, as 'Stümische Brandung, im Hintergrund Klippen' (with lots 362-64 for 60 RM); Carl Heumann (1886-1945), Chemnitz; his heirs; their sale, Bern, Galerie Kornfield, 17 June 2004, lot 18; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
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