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Lot n° 39

Carl Julius von Leypold

Estimate :
50 000 - 60 000 EUR

Carl Julius von Leypold (1806 Dresden - Niederlößnitz 1874) - Fog over a Russian cemetery. Oil on cardboard. (Around 1830). 26.2 x 42.1 cm. Framed. A blue-grey veil of mist lies over the graves in the hollows of the cemetery grounds. The grave crosses - one bent over like a rotten tree - are bathed in a diffuse light by the sun, whose rays are swallowed up by the haze. According to Werner Sumowski, this atmospheric landscape can only have been painted by a painter of the subsequent Romantic generation from the circle of Caspar David Friedrich, as it presupposes a knowledge of his style of the 1820s. Sumowski recognizes the same hand here as in Carl Julius von Leypold's "Kirchhofseingang" in the Stadtmuseum im Fembo-Haus, Nuremberg (inv. no. Gm 2005) (cf. Werner Sumowski, Caspar David Friedrich und Carl Julius von Leypold, Pantheon XXIX, 1971, p. 501, with illus.). In this composition, too, a foreground with space-forming elements seen close up is followed by a "foggy space", conceived as impenetrable and wandering into infinity. Leypold may have painted the motif for a Russian patron. The Russian poet Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (1783-1852), for example, who was an important patron of Caspar David Friedrich and was also in contact with other Dresden painters. Exhibition: Caspar David Friedrich and his circle, Galerie Hans, Hamburg 2006, cat. no. 32, with illus. Provenance: Galerie Hans, Hamburg, with the collector's stamp of Mathias F. Hans on the verso (cf. Lugt 5924); Grisebach, Berlin, auction, 31.5.2017, lot 125; Private collection, Germany. Taxation: differential taxation (VAT: Margin Scheme)

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