Friedrich Preller

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Friedrich Preller
1804-1878
Hawks on a Mountain
ca. 1856
Watercolor over graphite.
10 1/16 x 6 3/4 inches (256 x 172 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.196
Provenance: 
Sale, Leipzig, C.G. Boerner Inc., 25 May 1938, lot 306, repr.; sale, Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, 24 May 1955, lot 601; sale, Munich, Ketterer Kunst, 25 November 1986, lot 1573, repr.; Galerie Biedermann, Munich, 1986; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Associated names: 

Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 301, repr.
The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and Oil Sketches : Acquisitions since 1994. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 2002, no. 26.

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