Dahl, Johan Christian Clausen (1788 Bergen - 1857 Dresden)

Lot 2028 limit € 12.500

oil/canvas (old relined), "Dresden bei Mondschein", view over the Elbe to the old town, faint remains of the signature lower left (JD ..?), gold frame typical of the time with applied corner decoration and surrounding acanthus leaf frieze, approx. 21.5 x 26.5 cm , with frame approx. 32.5 x 38 cm, paintings by the artist with motifs from his adopted hometown of Dresden are very rarely offered on the international art market and are firmly in the hands of public and private collectors, expert opinion: Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Neidhardt (20.8.2008), provenance: art dealer Paul Rusch, Dresden, 1937, violin maker Rudolf Paulus, Dresden, Rudolf Paulus" heirs, Leipzig, literature: Marie Lodrup Bang: Johann Chrstian Dahl, Life and Works, Oslo 1987. Dahl is considered, together with his friend Casper David Friedrich, to be one of the outstanding representatives of Dresden Romanticism, both painter friends lived together in a house on the left bank of the Elbe.The work offered is one of several known smaller variants as preliminary work for the painting in large execution ( Bang 972, Rasmus Meyer collection, Bergen from 1843, cf. Bang 951, owned by the Niedersächsische Landesgalerie Hannover).