Ernst Ferdinand Oehme
1797-1855
View in the Alps
9 5/16 x 13 1/8 inches (236 x 334 mm)
Watercolor, opaque watercolor, and pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on wove paper.
1986.14
Purchased as the gift of Catherine Mellon Conover.
Notes
Watermark: J WHATMAN // TURKEY MILL // 181(?).
One of several watercolors of alpine views executed by the artist upon his return from Italy in 1825.
One of several watercolors of alpine views executed by the artist upon his return from Italy in 1825.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower center in light brown ink, [illegible]; at lower right, "...g(?)au" and "Schutzengelhorner(?)"; on verso, at lower center in graphite, by a later hand, "1825 auf der Rieise nach Italien gez"; at upper center, "Ernst Oehme".
Associated names
Conover, Catherine Mellon, donor.
Bibliography
Christian Dittrich, Vermiβte Zeichnungen des kupferstich-kabinettes Dresden, Dresden, 1987, no. 888, repr. (incorrectly listed as one of the missing Dresden drawings).
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 365.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 365.
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Century Drawings
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