Flachlandschaft im Vorgebirge. Um 1870.
Oil on panel.
Lower left with the signature paraph. With an old typographically numbered label "84" on the reverse. 12.1 x 32.4 cm (4.7 x 12.7 in).

We are grateful to Mr Detlef Rosenberger, who saw the original work, for his kind support in cataloging this lot.
We are also grateful to Samuel Reller, Kunstmuseum Sankt Gallen, for his help with the provenenace.

PROVENANCE: Art dealer Julius Eymer, Vienna (until 1919: Helbing, November 21, 1919).
Eduard Sturzenegger Collection (1854-1932), St. Gallen (acquired from the above in 1919, until 1926).
Donation Eduard Sturzenegger, 1926 (no. 126, "Sommertag").
Sturzeneggersche Gemäldesammlung, Stadt St. Gallen (1926-1935/36).
Ludwigsgalerie, München (on consigment from the above, sold between November 4, 1935 and December 9, 1936).
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.

LITERATURE: Siegfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg. Verzeichnis der Werke. Gemälde und Aquarelle, Stuttgart 2002, no. 1222 (fig.).
Günther Roennefahrt, Carl Spitzweg. Beschreibendes Verzeichnis seiner Gemälde, Ölstudien und Aquarelle, Munich 1960, no. 185 (fig.).
Hugo Helbing, Munich, Ölgemälde moderner Meister aus vorwiegend süddeutschem Privatbesitz, auction on November 18, 1919, postponed to November 21, 1919, no. 269 (fig. plate 15).
Versteigerungshaus Weiner, Munich, December 14, 1983, p. 78, no. 221.
Siegfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg. Das gestreckte Format. Dokumentation, Starnberg-München, R.f.v.u.a.K. 1996, pp. 14f., Bavarian State Library Munich, inv. no. Ana 656 SW 113.
Siegfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg. Ein Sommertag in Franken, Dokumentation, Starnberg-München, R.f.v.u.a.K. 2000, pp. 34f., Bavarian State Library Munich, inv. no. Ana 656 SW 155.