Lot 18: Araber neben seinem Pferd

Hans von Marées (German, 1837-1887)
Araber neben seinem Pferd
signed and dated 'H. v. Marees. 1857' (lower left)
oil on paper on board
7½ x 10¼ in. (19.1 x 26 cm.)
Painted in 1857.

Klara Freifrau von Ende (gift from the artist).
Ernst Flersheim, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Hugo Helbing, Munich, 11-13 May 1937, lot 49.
Phillip Reemtsma, Hamburg.
with Egon Günther Gallery, Mannheim, 1948.
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal-Elberfeld, 1946 (purchase from the above).
Restituted to the heirs of Ernst Flersheim, 2003.
Private collection, New York.

PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTOR


Meier-Graefe speculates that this oil sketch might have commemorated the arrival of an Arabian stallion to the court of the Duke of Anhalt-Dessau in 1857 which corresponds to the date of the painting.