Provenance
Major Corbett Winder, Vaynor Park, Berriew, Montgomeryshire.; London sale, Christie's, 17 June 1905 (lot 25), 1823, Sportsmen on Horseback, and Other Figures-A Pair, panel 9½ x 7½ in., to Kenderick, with pendant.; New York sale, Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, 14 June 1973 (lot 353), Two Riders in a Landscape, and The Afternoon Ride: A Pair of Paintings, with pendant, to Ira Spanierman, New York, and German dealer.; Rudolf Heinemann, Lugano.; Artemis, Fine Arts Ltd., London, 1980. Purchased by the cma through Eugene V. Thaw, New York, 1981.
Accession Number
1981.11
Medium
oil on wood panel
Dimensions
Framed: 38 x 33.5 x 6 cm (14 15/16 x 13 3/16 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 25 x 20.6 cm (9 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Tags
Painting Neoclassical & Romantic (1751–1850) Oil Painting Panel Painting German
Background & Context
Background Story
Wilhelm von Kobell (1766-1853) was a German painter known for the precisely observed, atmospheric landscape paintings of Bavarian subjects that make him one of the most accomplished landscape painters of the German tradition. Hunter and Lord at the River Isar with View of Munich from 1823 depicts a hunter and lord at the River Isar with a view of Munich in the precisely observed, atmospheric manner that distinguishes von Kobell's best work from the more general landscape painting of his contemporaries. Von Kobell was known for his precisely observed, atmospheric landscapes of Bavarian subjects—particularly views of Munich and the surrounding countryside—and the 1823 painting shows the Bavarian landscape at its most precisely observed.
Cultural Impact
Hunter and Lord at the River Isar with View of Munich is important in the history of German landscape painting because it demonstrates the precisely observed, atmospheric manner that von Kobell brought to Bavarian subjects as one of the most accomplished landscape painters of the German tradition. Von Kobell's precisely observed, atmospheric landscapes of Bavarian subjects—particularly views of Munich and the surrounding countryside—represent one of the most accomplished traditions in German landscape painting, and the 1823 painting shows this tradition at its most precisely observed.
Why It Matters
Hunter and Lord at the River Isar with View of Munich is von Kobell's precisely observed Bavarian landscape: a hunter and lord at the River Isar with a view of Munich rendered in the atmospheric manner of one of the most accomplished landscape painters of the German tradition. The 1823 painting shows the precise observation and atmospheric effect that make Bavarian landscape painting distinctive.
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