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Carl Spitzweg
5th February 1808 – 23th September 1885
Carl Spitzweg was born on 5th of February in 1808 in Unterpfaffenhofen, Bavaria. Although trained as a chemist, he discovered quite early his talent for drawing and his affinity with art. Spitzweg travelled extensively during his lifetime and the impressions formed by his travels greatly influenced his work. Shortly after completing his studies in pharmaceutics in 1832, he visited Italy. It was particularly in the cities of Florence, Rome, and Naples that he discovered the many significant works of Western culture which were to leave a permanent imprint on him.
A severe case of dysentery in 1833 strengthened his resolve to abandon his career as a chemist and he proceeded to commit himself solely to his painting. In June 1835, he became a member of the Munich Art Association and travelled that same year to southern Tirol with the landscape painter Eduard Schleich, the Elder.
In 1839 he completed his first painting entitled ''The Poor Poet'. Although this recurring motif would later be considered his most well-known body of work, the painting was not accepted at this time by the jury of the Munich Art Association.
As regards his graphic production, the first publication in 1844 of his own illustrations in the Munich weekly paper 'Fliegende Blätter' is considered quite significant. His visits to the Industrial Exposition in Paris and the World's Fair exhibition in London in 1851 were his first contact with the Oriental scenes which would begin to inform his work.
To the deserving painter were bestowed numerous honours during the second half of Spitzweg's lifetime: in 1865 the Bavarian Royal Merit Order of St. Michael was conferred upon him, and in 1875 he was named an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Carl Spitzweg died on 23th of September in 1885 and was entombed in the historic South Cemetery in Munich.
He leaves behind a body of work dedicated to the townspeople who inhibit his genre scenes, and with acute and pointed, but never ill-natured humour he portrays the everday bourgeois life of his time.
Lit: Siegfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg. Verzeichnis der Werke, Gemälde und Aquarelle, Stuttgart: Belser, 2002.
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Steen, Jan
1626 Leiden - 1679 ebd.
Peasants scene. Oil on canvas, relined. Signed lower right. Verso on canvas inscribed «Jan Steen» and inscribed on two labels «...Freeman & Son...» and «24185» on stretcher frame. Retouching and fractionally overpainting. Authentication: We would like to thank Mrs Ellis Dullaart, Assistant Conservator, Oude Nederlandse Schilderkunst, Dpt. of Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), Den Haag, for the scientific advice via 
1626 Leiden - 1679 ebd.
Bäuerliche Szene. Öl/Lw., doubl. Vor hügeliger, karger Landschaft in der linken Bildhälfte ein strohgedecktes, detailreich dargestelltes Bauernhaus, rechts davon ein grüner Laubbaum unter teilweise dunkel bewölktem Himmel. Vor dem Gehöft mehrere einfach gekleidete Figuren ihre tägliche Arbeit verrichtend. Im Zentrum der Komposition eine Mutter ihr Kind stillend sowie neben ihr ein Knabe schlafend und ein Mann seinen Esel zäumend. U.r. sign. Verso auf Lw. bez. «Jan Steen» und auf zwei Etiketten bez. «...Freeman & Son...» sowie auf Keilrahmen «24185». Retuschen, partielle Übermalungen.
Jan Steen ist bekannt für seine meisterhaften lebhaften Genredarstellungen, die das einfache niederländische Volksleben sowie Interieurszenen mit moralischem Anklang zeigen. Die hier vorliegende Komposition mit Figuren in einer Landschaft stammt aus dem Frühwerk des Künstlers und weist eine mit Liebe zum Detail gearbeitete Architektur und Vegetation sowie seinen gekonnten Umgang mit Licht und Schatten auf.
Authentifizierung: Wir danken Frau Ellis Dullaart, Assistant Conservator, Oude Nederlandse Schilderkunst, Dpt. of Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), Den Haag, für die wissenschaftliche Beratung via
Provenienz: Auktion Pieter Oets & Co., Amsterdam, 31.01.1791, Los 5; Auktion Sotheby's, London, 02.07.1986, Los 160, (hier fälschlicherweise monogr. und dat. JS 44); seit 1996 Privatsammlung München.
Literatur: C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Teil 1, Esslingen/Paris 1907, Abb. 41 (vgl.); B. Kirschenbaum, The religious and historical paintings of Jan Steen, New York 1977,