Blick ins Tal (Zwei Mädchen auf einer Alpe). Um 1860.
Oil on canvas.
Roennefahrt 371. Wichmann 1457. With the rhomb in lower right. 32 x 53.7 cm (12.5 x 21.1 in).

PROVENANCE: Presumably sales index no. 222 (sold to the art agent the Martin Schwab for 500 Franc in 1867).
Collection Karl (Carlos) Fürst von Auersperg.
Collection Victor Louis Fürst Rohan (inherited from aforementioned).
Fleischmann, auction "Aus dem Besitz der Fürsten Rohan"', Munich, November 9, 1893, lot no. 49 (here titled "Auf der Alm").
Private collection Berlin (the latest since the 1960s).

EXHIBITION: Spitzweg exhibition at Rudolfinum, Prague in 1887, no. 100 (from the ownership of Fürst Carlos von Auersperg).
Berliner Sammler-Tradition, exhibition at Bezirksamt Tiergarten, Berlin July 15 - 30, 1950, cat. no. 258 (from a Berlin private collection).

LITERATURE: Siegfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg. Kunst, Kosten und Konflikte, Frankfurt/Berlin 1991, p. 332, no. 222.