Johann Adam Klein - Horsemen Resting outside an Inn
Johann Adam Klein
Horsemen Resting outside an Inn
Oil on canvas. 24.5 x 32 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: JAKlein f, 1818 (JAK in ligature).
Johann Adam Klein initially copied animal depictions by Philips Wouwerman. He received drawing lessons from Ambrosius Gabler, who encouraged him to study from nature and fostered his talent for animal drawing. From 1811 to 1818 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The present painting was executed in that year, an early testimony to the work of an artist highly esteemed by his contemporaries for his genre and animal scenes.
Provenance
Hugo Ruef, Munich, 10./11.121992, lot 247. – Private collection, Southern Germany.
Johann Adam Klein
Horsemen Resting outside an Inn
Oil on canvas. 24.5 x 32 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: JAKlein f, 1818 (JAK in ligature).
Johann Adam Klein initially copied animal depictions by Philips Wouwerman. He received drawing lessons from Ambrosius Gabler, who encouraged him to study from nature and fostered his talent for animal drawing. From 1811 to 1818 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The present painting was executed in that year, an early testimony to the work of an artist highly esteemed by his contemporaries for his genre and animal scenes.
Provenance
Hugo Ruef, Munich, 10./11.121992, lot 247. – Private collection, Southern Germany.
