Lot 42
  • 42

Johann Mongels Culverhouse 1820 - 1891

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Johann Mongels Culverhouse
  • Skating at Twilight
  • signed J.M. Culverhouse and dated 1897, l.l.

  • oil on canvas
  • 22 1/4 by 36 1/8 in.
  • 56.5 by 91.8 cm.

Provenance

Alexander Gallery, New York

Exhibited

Cotuit, Massachusetts, The Cahoon Museum of American Art, At Home in America:  19th Century Genre Painting, 2008

Condition

The canvas is lined. SURFACE: In good condition. craquelure throughout. A few repairs evident in the sky. UNDER UV: One dot of inpainting in the sky at upper right, a 3 by 1 inch, rectangluar repair in the sky at upper left with inpainting, a few other small scattered spots.
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