Ernst Fries

Heidelberg 1801 – 1833 Karlsruhe
”Die Stadt Capri”. 1826

Pencil on laid paper. 32 × 46,1 cm. (12 ⅝ × 18 ⅛ in.) Dated lower right: Capri den 16ten Aug. 1826. On the reverse lower left the stamp Lugt 2067b, lower right the stamp Lugt 2841a. Catalogue raisonné: Wechssler 387. [3021]

Provenance
Estate of the artist (list B, no. 262) / Johann Carl Heinrich Koopmann (acquired at the auction of the estate 16./12.1833, approx. until 1894) / Private collection, Northern Germany (1918) / Estate Baroness Erlanger (1919) / Paul Arndt, Munich (approx. until 1934) / Carl Heumann, Chemnitz / Gallery Arnoldi-Livie, Munich / formerly private collection, USA
Sold for:
17,500 EUR (incl. premium)