Carl Gustav Carus

An Overgrown Mineshaft



Carl Gustav Carus - An Overgrown Mineshaft



Carl Gustav Carus
An Overgrown Mineshaft
c. 1824
28.6 x 21 cm
Oil on paper laid down on cardboard
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2007


Literature

Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 14


Provenance

Johann Friedrich Lahmann, Dresden, until d. 1937
his estate sale, Lepke's, Berlin, 27-29 April 1938, nr. 37
E.H. Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt, by 1968–d. 1975
his heirs, 1975–77, to Foundation
Georg Schäfer Foundation, Schweinfurt, 1977–2000
its sale, Christie's, Düsseldorf, 31 January 2000, nr. 72, to Thaw
Eugene Victor Thaw, Santa Fe, 2000–2007

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 2007.164.1

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Carl Gustav Carus Studio in Moonlight
Studio in Moonlight
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Carl Gustav Carus Studio Window
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Carl Gustav Carus Pilgrim in a Rocky Valley
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c. 1820

Carl Gustav Carus Balcony Room with a View of the Bay of Naples
Balcony Room with a View of the Bay of Naples
c. 1829/30

Carl Gustav Carus Wanderer on the mountaintop
Wanderer on the mountaintop
1818