Lot 127: AMALIE KAERCHER

AMALIE KAERCHER ACTIVE IN KARLSRUHE 1860 - 1871 STILL LIFE OF ROSES, PEONIES, A TULIP AND OTHER FLOWERS IN A BASKET WITH GRAPES AND PLUMS, ALL ON A MARBLE LEDGE signed and dated lower left: Amalie Kaercher 1867 oil on canvas 26 5/8 by 20 3/4 in.; 67.6 by 52.7 cm.

Anonymous sale ("Property of a Private Collector"), New York, Christie's, 26 February 1982, lot 82;
There purchased by the present collectors.

Amalie Kaercher was active as a still life painter of flowers in Karlsruhe, Germany in the mid-19th century. She exhibited works regularly there, as well as in Kassel and Munich.

We are grateful to Fred Meijer of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague for confirming the attribution, based on an image.