Painting
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1979.020.14.2
- Creator:
- von Dillis, Johann Georg (1759-1841)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Swiss or German (possibly)
- Date:
- 1793-1797
- Description:
- Painting. Untitled landscape, attributed to Johann Georg von Dillis (1759-1841); 1793-1797. Watercolor on paper. European landscape. Trees and felled logs in foreground with stream. Man with shovel and woman with basket on head, stand and converse on dirt road, left foreground. Tall tree left of center. Hill in center middle ground with one-story cabin. Unsigned. Gilded gesso over molded wood frame, exterior beaded trim, interior foliate molding, glazed. One of a pair (companion to 1979.024.14.1).
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-12.6 W-17.2 inches
- Provenance:
- Originally owned by Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford, who bequeathed her collection of family portraits to her cousin Joseph Burbeen Walker (1822-1913) in 1852. The portraits then passed to his son Charles R. Walker (1852-1922), and to his grandson Sheafe Walker, the donor.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Sheafe Walker
- Subjects:
- Cottages, Munich, Germany, Landscape paintings, Bavaria
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