Clasen, Lorenz (1812 Düsseldorf - 1899 Leipzig)

Lot 2230 limit € 80

Lead and ink on firm paper, Christian genre scene, a soldier hands over an orphan to a young woman, in the spandrels inscribed Whoever accepts one of these little ones who believe in me in my name, accepts me., signed lower left, mounted on backing cardboard and mounted in passe-partout, minor signs of age, sheet approx. 14 x 9.5 cm, with passe-partout approx. 44 x 31 cm, studied at the art academy in Düsseldorf with Rudolph Wiegmann and Theodor Hildebrand, 1840-49 master class Wilhelm von Schadow with his own studio in the Academy building, moved to Berlin in 1850 and to Leipzig in 1855