We have 2 artworks by August Weckesser online. We have 1824 paintings online.
Ordered by Conrad Cramer-Frey together with its counterpart (inv. 876) in the spring of 1889: obviously as evocations of love in the pagan and Christian eras.
Described by Waser as 'Dancing bacchantes offer wine to the sleeping Pan'; the landscape is based on a plein air oil sketch from the Sabine mountains.
In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.
Also known as
Pan and Bacchantes
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 87 x 106 cm
Inventory number
875
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by the National Council Cramer-Freyʼs Estate, 1908
Signature
inscr. b. r.: Weckesser / Roma 1891
Inscriptions
-
Accession year
1908
Provenance
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About the provenance
State of research 01.01.2007
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Literature (general)
- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 180.