Bäuerin vor einer Almhütte. Um 1870.
Oil on cigar box wood.
With the signature paraphe on the lower left. Inscribed "Geschenk von Carl Spitzweg an meinen Vater Professor Seeberger. Bestätigt Dr. Seeberger K. Professor" on the reverse and with the artist's name in the lower left. 9.4 x 16.5 cm (3.7 x 6.4 in).

We are grateful to Mr. Detlef Rosenberger, who examined the original work, for his kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE:
Collection of Prof. Gustav Seeberger, Nuremberg/Munich (with the ownership note on the reverse).
Collection Dr. Ludwig Johann Seeberger, Landsberg am Lech (1888 by inheritance from the above, with the ownership note on the reverse).
Private collection.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.

LITERATURE: Siegfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg. Verzeichnis der Werke. Gemälde und Aquarelle, Stuttgart 2002, no. 1326 (illu.).
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Sotheby's, Munich, November 11, 1987, lot 24
Siegfried Wichmann, catalogue raisonné, February 18, 1988, pp. 1-5.
Neumeister auction house, Munich, March 19, 1997, no. 807.