Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

(Vienna 1793–1865 Hinterbrühl)
The Charitable Gift, signed, dated Waldmüller (1)850, oil on panel, 64 x 54 cm, framed, restored fissure, rusted (Rei)

Provenance:
Collection of Adolf Josef Bösch (1835-1884), Vienna;
his sale, P. Kaeser, Vienna, 12 December 1868, lot 46;
Collection of Eduard von Todesco (1814-1887), Vienna;
Private Collection, Germany, c. 1870s until 1939;
forced sale, Kunsthandlung P. v. Kosel, Munich May 1939;
Führermuseum Linz (no. 0721);
Central Collecting Point, Munich, (Mü no. 3345), 1945-1951;
restitution to the legitimate heirs by JRSO, Nuremberg, 1951;
Private Collection, Germany;
Dorotheum Vienna, 1 April 2009, lot 336;
Private Collection Austria.

Catalogued and illustrated in:
Bruno Grimschitz, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg 1957, CR 743 (The Blind Beggar), p. 345;
Rupert Feuchtmüller, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller 1793–1865, Leben, Schriften, Werke, Verlag Christian Brandstätter, Wien, München 1996, CR 816 (The Blind Beggar), p. 499

Catalogued in:
Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts, Hofheim am Taunus 1979, vol. II, 2, no. 124, p. 970.

Compare:
Bruno Grimschitz, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg 1957, CR 744 (The Blind Beggar), p. 345;
Rupert Feuchtmüller, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller 1793–1865, Leben, Schriften, Werke, Verlag Christian Brandstätter, Wien, München 1996, CR 817, p. 499