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Lot Essay
This is closely related to a drawing of the same composition but without the perspective lines, apparently in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett (image in Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, no. 20007365). It appears to precede the Berlin drawing. Prof. Dr. Thimann has proposed that the drawing was made circa 1815.
Hummel was known as ‘Perspektiv-Hummel’. His paintings and drawings often demonstrate a profound interest in architecture and perspective. He taught these subjects at the Berliner Akademie from 1809 and published his theories about them in Die Freie Perspektive, from 1824/25. The artist’s skill at rendering perspective and different textures is especially clear in a series of paintings showing the Granite Dish in the Berlin Lustgarten, one of which is in the the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin (C. Keisch, The Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin, London, 2005, no. 54, ill.).
We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Michael Thimann for suggesting the attribution to Hummel and for his assistance in cataloguing this drawing.
Hummel was known as ‘Perspektiv-Hummel’. His paintings and drawings often demonstrate a profound interest in architecture and perspective. He taught these subjects at the Berliner Akademie from 1809 and published his theories about them in Die Freie Perspektive, from 1824/25. The artist’s skill at rendering perspective and different textures is especially clear in a series of paintings showing the Granite Dish in the Berlin Lustgarten, one of which is in the the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin (C. Keisch, The Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin, London, 2005, no. 54, ill.).
We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Michael Thimann for suggesting the attribution to Hummel and for his assistance in cataloguing this drawing.