3248
Carl Rudolf Huber
(Schleinz bei Wiener Neustadt 1839 - 1896 Wien)
„Excursion of a Lady from a Harim (in Cairo)“
1889
oil on canvas; framed
120.5 x 80.5 cm
signed and dated on the lower left: C Rud. Huber. 1889
on the reverse label Künstlerhaus Vienna: 1897/975 (confirmed by Nikolaus Domes, Künstlerhaus Archiv Vienna);
on the reverse exhibition label with the numbers 1425 and 2429
Provenance
from the estate of the artist;
his estate auction by H.O. Miethke, Künstlerhaus Vienna, 3 - 4 February 1897, no. 15;
probably acquired there by Count Salm (according to Feuchtmüller);
private property, Vienna
Exhibition
1889 Vienna, annual exhibition at the Künstlerhaus;
1890 Berlin, LXII. exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 388;
Literature
Georg Ebers, Ägypten in Bild und Wort: dargestellt von unseren ersten Künstlern (Vol. 2), Stuttgart/Leipzig 1880, p. 121, Xylograph: "Excursion of a Lady from a Harim";
Gerhard Ramberg, Huber-Album, Vienna 1902, pl. 6;
cf.: Rupert Feuchtmüller, C. Rudolf Huber. Persönlichkeit und Werk, Vienna 1955, p. 12;
cf.: Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts. vol.1/2, Hofheim/Taunus 1979 fourth, unchanged reprint, p. 609, no. 49;
Ernst Czerny, Carl Rudolf Huber and the Temptation of the East, in: Egypt and Austria XII, ed. Mladen Tomorad, Oxford-Zagreb 2020, p. 223-258, b/w ill. p. 230, Fig. 4)
Estimate: € 7.000 - 14.000
Hammer price: € 4.000
Auction is closed.