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Source Description
Vautier, a prolific and commercially successful artist during his life time, is often grouped with the best known German academic genre painters of the 19th century, such as Franz von Defregger and Ludwig Knaus. Like Defregger and Knaus, his works were very fashionable, and circulated widely as prints and photographs.Vautier had studied in Düsseldorf, and after 1858 he settled there. Throughout his life he undertook a journeys into the countryside during which he made studies that would become the basis for later finished works. Peasant life in the Black Forest was a favorite theme.
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Document identity
localId
30855
label
Old Woman and Boy Resting
core
obj
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drawing
citationUrl
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3
Source metadata
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30855
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Old Woman and Boy Resting
description
Vautier, a prolific and commercially successful artist during his life time, is often grouped with the best known German academic genre painters of the 19th century, such as Franz von Defregger and Ludwig Knaus. Like Defregger and Knaus, his works were very fashionable, and circulated widely as prints and photographs.Vautier had studied in Düsseldorf, and after 1858 he settled there. Throughout his life he undertook a journeys into the countryside during which he made studies that would become the basis for later finished works. Peasant life in the Black Forest was a favorite theme.
provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1860
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
paintings
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3
pageCount
3
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
17
height
23
dimensionsRaw
H: 6 11/16 x W: 9 1/16 in. (17 x 23 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Singature] Lower right: B. Vautier
med
pencil with white on paper
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5929
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none
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
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photo
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photo
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3
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photo
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