Live auction - Lot 5
[Austrian school]
Romantic landscape with strollers.
€ 500 / 600
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
Drawing, pen and Chinese black ink, brush and brown and white gouache, with traces of graphite, 23 x 36,7 cm, laid paper with watermark of 1795, signed in pencil at lower left corner "Molitor" (sm. stain at upper left edge).
Under passe-partout, under wooden gilt frame (not studied outside frame).
Landscape with small meandering river. In the right foreground two women are walking a dog. The contours of a ruin can be spotted in the left background. Von Molitor (1759-1812) was a popular landscape painter of the Austrian Romantic movement. The drawing is accompanied by a certificate (30.1.1984).