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The Rhine at Remagen

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Vilhelm Petersen
1812-1880
1850
Oil on paper, mounted to canvas.
4 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches (124 x 184 mm)
Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009.
2009.400:93
Notes: 

"In Helsingør 1990 [cited below], Christensen and Faye recorded an inscription on the verso of the canvas: Fra mit Windue I Vaertshuset I Rehmagen 7 Juli 1850. The inscription is no longer visible owing to relining of the canvas."--Studying Nature (cited below), p. 138.

Inscription: 
Inscribed at lower right (incised into paint): Remagen 7 Juli ... Vinduet.
Provenance: 
The artist's family; Galerie Jean-François Heim, Paris; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
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School: 
Dutch
Century: 
19th century
Classification: 
Oil Sketch
Department: 
Drawings and Prints