RITTER, HENRY1816 Montreal - 1853 Düsseldorf
Title: "Die Verlobung des Seemanns".
Date: 1841.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 29 x 39,5cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: "HRitter. 1841".
Frame: Framed.
Literature:
W. Hütt: Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule, 1995, p. 136 with ill.
Provenance:
Private ownership, Germany.
It is a small draft version of the painting 'Betrothal in Normandy' (87 x 126 cm, formerly Städtisches Museum Leipzig, now Volmer Collection Foundation, Wuppertal) executed by Henry Ritter the following year. This motif was also published as a lithograph.
