Old Masters, British & European Paintings - 4th March 2020
Lot 354
Martinus Rørbye (Danish 1803-1848) Two shepherd boys in the Roman Campagna Dated 1835 and...
Estimate £4,000 - £6,000 | Hammer £5200
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Description
Martinus Rørbye (Danish 1803-1848)
Two shepherd boys in the Roman Campagna
Dated 1835 and inscribed Roma
Oil on paper laid on canvas
21.4 x 28.5cm; 8½ x 11¼in
Provenance:
Martinus Rørbye estate sale, Copenhagen, 1849, lot 41;
C. von Bornemann, 1905;
Hans Tobiesen (1881-1953);
his posthumous sale, Winkel et Magnussen, auction 388, 1954, no. 99
Literature:
Martinus Rørbye 1803-1848, catalogue raisonné (Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, 1981), no. 97.
The painting is a preparatory work for a version in the Scottish National Gallery (NG 2707). At the time of Rørbye's estate sale the faces were unfinished, and these were later completed by Wilhelm Marstrand (1810-1873).