CASPAR WOLF

CASPAR WOLF
(Muri 1735–1783 Heidelberg)Landscape with ruins and a semicircular colonnade.Oil on canvas.Remnants of a signature lower centre: C... W....87.8 × 63.7 cm.

Lot 6034 - ibid160 Old Master Paintings - online only

Provenance:
- Joseph Anton Felix Balthasar collection (1737–1810).
- Canon Franz Geiger collection (1755–1843), Lucerne (verso with label).
- Dr Jost Meyer-am Rhyn collection (1834–1898), Lucerne.
- Dr Hans Meyer-Rahn collection (1868–1954), Lucerne.
- Bossard collection, Lucerne.
- Swiss private collection.

Exhibited:
Basel 1980, Caspar Wolf. Landschaft im Vorfeld der Romantik, Kunstmuseum, 15 June–14 September 1980 (verso with label).

Literature:
- Willi Raeber: Caspar Wolf (1735–1783). Sein Leben und sein Werk. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Schweizer Malerei des 18. Jahrhunderts, Aarau/Munich 1979, p. 189, cat. no. 363.
- Exh. cat. Caspar Wolf. Landschaft im Vorfeld der Romantik, Basel 1980, p. 37, cat. no. 66.

Oil on canvas, transferred to Pavatex. Verso with canvas protection. Paint surface with a fine network of craquelure. Surface scratches. Old stretcher marks slightly visible on the left and right. Traces of a continuous fine vertical retouched hairline crack visible on the left. Minimal colour abrasion along the margins.
Under UV light areas of retouching visible in the landscape, on the architecture and in the sky. Varnish fluoresces unevenly greenish.
Frame: 97 × 74.5 cm.

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