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ANSELM FEUERBACH (SPEYER 1829-1880 VENICE) PEDER SEVERIN KRØYER (STAVANGER 1851-1909 SKAGEN)
Portrait of a young man Men listening at a concert
signed with monogram ‘AF’ (lower left) signed, dated and inscribed ‘S. Krøyer/ - 87/ Copenaghen/ A M. Gonse/ avec
graphite, black and white chalk, on brown wove paper amitié/ S. Kroyer’ (lower right)
8º x 5æ in. (21.1 x 14.9 cm) black chalk, on wove paper
11Ω x 8Ω in. (29.2 x 21.7 cm)
$5,000-7,000
$3,000-5,000
PROVENANCE:
James Coats, New York. PROVENANCE:
with Shepherd Gallery, New York (German Drawings and Watercolors, 1780- Gift of the artist to Louis Gonse (1846-1921), Paris.
1880, 1981, no. 162, ill.). with Arnoldi-Livie, Munich.
David M. Daniels (1927-2002), New York; Sotheby’s, New York, 29 October,
2002, lot 103. This drawing corresponds to the left part of one of Krøyer’s best-known
paintings, now at the Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo (inv. NG.M.00325; see K.
EXHIBITED: Halkier in Krøyer. An International Perspective, exhib. cat., Copenhagen, Den
Washington, D.C., The National Gallery, and other institutions, 19th and 20th
Century European Drawings, 1965-1966, no. 20, ill. Hirschsprungske Samling, and Skagen, Skagens Museum, 2011-2012, no. 76,
Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Drawings from the David Daniels Collection, ill.). Dated 1886, it represents a concert given by the Neruda String Quartet,
1968, no. 40, ill. (catalogue by A. Mongan). of which the members take up most of the painting at right. More than just
an evocation of a musical evening in the artist’s Copenhagen studio, it can
This drawing could be a self-portrait of the artist, as was already tentatively be considered a group portrait of the Danish cultural world and the artist’s
suggested by Agnes Mongan (op. cit.). Several painted self-portraits by circle of friends. A preparatory oil sketch with many differences is also at the
Feuerbach are known from different periods in his life (J. Ecker, Anselm Nasjonalmuseet (inv. NMK.2008.0628). Dated a year later, the drawing, on
Feuerbach. Leben und Werk. Kritischer Katalog der Gemälde, Ölskizzen und the other hand, must have made as a ricordo, and was given by the artist to
Ölstudien, Munich, 1991, nos. 4, 54, 107, 133, 161, 255, ill.). If indeed it depicts Louis Gonse, editor-in-chief of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, perhaps on the
the artist himself, the present sheet can be dated around 1850. occasion of the painting’s inclusion in the Paris Salon of 1887.

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