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Moonlight landscape

Lost Art-ID

599863

Artist / Creator

Carus, Carl Gustav

Birth

1789.01.03, Leipzig

Death

1869.07.28, Dresden

Place of activity

Pillnitz; Dresden; Leipzig

Title

Moonlight landscape

Object type

Painting

Group of reported objects

Painting

Material / Technique

Canvas / painted

Measures

16,5 x 21,5 cm

Inventory number

G 0499-ex

Description

unsigned; on the reverse a label with an A and the royal crown; apparently from royal Saxon property

In the middle ground at the foot of a conical hill a house between trees. In front to the right pointedly the low wall of a garden with high trees at the end. On the sidewalk a man. To the right in the sky between clouds the moon.

Provenance

Donation from the Mathiesen gallery, Berlin, 1927 | lost in the evacuation point Ehrenbreitstein, after/around 1945

[...]-1927: the Mathiesen gallery, Berlin | 1927-after/around 1945: Städtisches Museum, Wuppertal-Elberfeld | 1945: larceny, evacuation point Ehrenbreitstein | after/around 1945-present: whereabouts unknown.

Storage site

Ehrenbreitstein

Published since

20.05.2022