Auction House

Auction: 19th Century Paintings

20. June 2023, 4:00 pm

Object overview
Object

2580

„View of San Giorgio Maggiore from the pier of Venice“
after 1864
oil on canvas; framed
39.5 x 49.5 cm
signed on the lower left: R. Alt;
label Dorotheum Vienna on the reverse

Provenance

probably Gottfried and Dr. Herrmann Eissler, Vienna (1911);
auction Dorotheum, Vienna, 23th October 1928, lot 3, pl. I;
private property, Germany

Exhibition

cf. 1912, Secession Vienna, Rudolf von Alt-Gedächtnisausstellung zur Feier seines 100. Geburtstages. XLII. Ausstellung der Vereinigung bildender Künstler Österreichs, no. 41

Literature

cf. Ulrich Thieme/Felix Becker (ed.). Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. I, Leipzig 1907, p. 344 (as "undatierbar (undated)": Canal Grande in Venice, collection Lobmeyr);
cf. Ludwig Hevesi, Rudolf Alt. Sein Leben und sein Werk, Vienna 1911, p. 162, no. 100 (provenance: "collection Gottfried und Dr. Hermann Eißler");
Marianne Hussl-Hörmann, Rudolf von Alt. Die Ölgemälde, Auktionshaus im Kinsky (ed.), Vienna 2011, p. 146, cat.-no. 57 (BW-ill.)

Estimate: € 10.000 - 20.000
Result: € 12.800 (incl. fees)
Auction is closed.