Josef Scheurenberg - The Courtship
Josef Scheurenberg
The Courtship
Oil on panel. 46 x 58 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: J. Scheurenberg 18... (the last two digits illegible).
This depiction of a young couple beneath an arbour is a characteristic example of the lighthearted Rococo-Era genre scenes for which Scheurenberg was famed alongside his sensitive portraits and monumental commissions such as Berlin city hall.
Provenance
Former Kunstsalon Herm. Abels, Cologne (with gallery label to verso). - In private ownership by descent since at least 1961.
Literature
Boetticher, Friedrich von: Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 2nd ed. Leipzig 1941, vol. 2/2, p. 548, no. 19.
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Josef Scheurenberg
The Courtship
Oil on panel. 46 x 58 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: J. Scheurenberg 18... (the last two digits illegible).
This depiction of a young couple beneath an arbour is a characteristic example of the lighthearted Rococo-Era genre scenes for which Scheurenberg was famed alongside his sensitive portraits and monumental commissions such as Berlin city hall.
Provenance
Former Kunstsalon Herm. Abels, Cologne (with gallery label to verso). - In private ownership by descent since at least 1961.
Literature
Boetticher, Friedrich von: Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 2nd ed. Leipzig 1941, vol. 2/2, p. 548, no. 19.
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