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Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

Columbus' First Landing in America

This lot has been withdrawn

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Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

1816 - 1868

Columbus' First Landing in America


signed E Leutze. and dated 63. (lower right); also signed again and titled indistinctly (on an original label affixed to the stretcher)

oil on canvas

24 1/2 by 39 1/2 inches

(62.2 by 100.3 cm)


We thank Dr. Graham C. Boettcher for his help researching this lot.

Please note this lot has been withdrawn.
A. J. Sordoni, Pennsylvania
Private collection
Sold: The Potomack Company, June 15, 2019, lot 186
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale 
"Malerei und vervielfälligende Künste," Illustrirte Zeitung, Leipzig, Germany, vol. 31, no. 1061, October 31, 1863, p. 323
"Emanuel Leutze," Über Land und Meer: Allgemeine Illustrirte Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany, vol. 23, no. 5, November 1869, p. 95
Moritz Blanckarts, Düsseldorfer Künstler: Nekrologe aus den letzten zehn Jahren
Stuttgart, Germany, 1877, p. 27
Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts: Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte, Dresden, Germany, 1891, no. 39, p. 858
Néstor Ponce de León, The Columbus Gallery: The "Discoverer of the New World" as Represented in Portraits, Monuments, Statues, Medals and Paintings, New York, 1893, no. 60, p. 155
"Ladies Library Association Meeting," Independence Daily Reporter, Independence, Kansas, November 11, 1915, p. 4
Barbara S. Groseclose, Emanuel Leutze, 1816-1868: A German-American History Painter, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973, p. 229
Mario Materassi, Maria Irene Ramalho Sousa Santos, et al., The American Columbiad: Discovering America, Inventing the United States, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1996, p. 68