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Lake of Constance, sunset

Oil Painting
1848 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Zwengauer, Anton (painter (artist))

Oil painting, 'Lake of Constance, Sunset', Anton Zwengauer, 1848


Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil painting
TitleLake of Constance, sunset (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Oil Paint
Canvas
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil painting, 'Lake of Constance, Sunset', Anton Zwengauer, 1848
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 54.6cm
  • Estimate width: 80cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, II. 1800-1900, C.M. Kauffmann, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1973
Style
German School
Marks and inscriptions
'A Zwengauer [AZ in monogram] 1848' (Signed and dated by the artist, lower left)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend
Object history
Bequeathed by Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend, 1868
Subjects depicted
Sunsets
Lakes
Bibliographic references
  • Kauffmann, C.M. Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, II. 1800-1900 . London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, p. 107, cat. no. 235.
  • Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain: Being an account of more than forty collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Mss, etc, London, 1857, p.177.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
1543-1869

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Record createdApril 30, 2007
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O134306/lake-of-constance-sunset-oil-painting-zwengauer-anton/
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