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Johann Erdmann Hummel
1769-1852
18th century
Oil on paper, mounted on canvas.
22 7/8 x 17 3/4 inches (581 x 451 mm)
Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009.
2009.400:75
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"Asher Ethan Miller identified a sketch of the same view by Gustaf Wilhelm Palm, signed and dated 1844, sold at Bukowski's, Stockholm, 24 May 2005, lot 28, as Vy från Trakten av Albano (View near Albano)"--Studying Nature (cited below), p. 130.

Provenance: 
Galerie René-François Teissèdre, Paris; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
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School: 
German
Century: 
18th century
Classification: 
Oil Sketch
Department: 
Drawings and Prints