Junge Kuhhirtin (Auf der Weide / Mädchen mit Kuh). 1896.
Color Pastel on brown paper, mounted on stretcher at an early point.
Lower right signed and dated. 55 x 77 cm (21.6 x 30.3 in), the full sheet.
Bright, large-size pastel by the master of German Impressionism. Works of this quality are extremely rare on the international auction market today.
The written expertise from Drs. Margreet Nouwen, Berlin, was not at hand before printing. The work will be included into the forthcoming catalog raisonné of works on paper.
PROVENANCE: Gemäldegalerie Hans Wiedenbusch, Wiesbaden (until 1899).
Private ownership (1900, information in H. Rosenhagen).
Eduard Schulte, Berlin / Wiesbaden / Cologne.
Carl Dietrich, Wiesbaden (until 1904).
Private ownership Berlin (1906)
Presumably Max Adler, Berlin (1914).
Collection Bruno and Sadie Adriani, Berlin and Monterey/California (the jurist and art collector Bruno Adriani was active as lawyer in Potsdam as of 1910. Over the years he compiled an extensive collections of paintings. After his move to Geneva at the end of 1930s and his emigration in 1936 he bequeathed a large part to the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in the 1960s).
Rose Marie Chamberlin, Los Angeles (inherited from aforementined).
Private collection Los Angeles (gifted from aforementioned between 1985 and 1989).
LITERATURE: (selection)
Die Kunstchronik, vol. X, no. 27, June 8th 1899, col. 448 (results of Collection Weidenbusch): "Auf der Weide: 4300 M.".
Collection Hans Weidenbusch, Wiesbaden, auction house Heberle, Cologne, June 5th 1899, lot 14, with illu. in black-and-white (with the title "Auf der Weide").
'Ölgemälde und Aquarelle (Gemälde-Sammlungen) moderner Meister ersten Ranges', Estate Ferd. Hirschwald and estate Fr. Schwager, Berlin and works from the collections Ed. Himmelbauer, Vienna and Carl Dietrich, Wiesbaden, catalog 1375, Rudolph Lepke, Berlin March 15th 1904, lot 100, black-and-white illu. on plate IV.
Hans Rosenhagen, Liebermann, Knackfuß -Künstler-Monographie XLV, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1900, illu. 87, p. 83 (there with the title "Mädchen mit Kuh" and erroneously mentioned for 1897)
Der Kunstmarkt, vol. I, no. 23, March 11th 1904, p.153: general information on upcoming auction at Lepke; and no. March 25th 1904, p. 172: results of Lepke auction.
Rudolf Klein, Max Liebermann [Richard Muther (editor), Die Kunst, vol. 55/56], Berlin 1906, p. 136.
Attachment to a letter from Eduard Schulte (Berlin/Düsseldorf/Cologne) from Berlin to Gustav Pauli dated 19 April 1909.
Berthold Daun, Die Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts und der Gegenwart, Berlin 1909, p. 527.
presumably Erich Hancke, Max Liebermann. Sein Leben und seine Werke, mit work catalog, Berlin 1914, p. 537 (under 1896: "Mädchen mit Kuh, Pastell, Pappe, 55 x 75 cm, Max Adler, Berlin").
Matthias Eberle, Max Liebermann. Catalog raisonné of paintings and oil studies, 1900-1935, Munich 1996, p. 388, mentioned under catalog raisonné 1891/5.
Called up: December 9, 2017 - ca. 13.05 h +/- 20 min.