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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Susie, Dusseldorf is certainly a possibility, but I'd also look at Biedermeier works. Unfortunately, the title I wanted to check isn't on our shelves, but you might have it: Biedermeier,1815-1835: Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Decorative Arts, Fashion (Munich: Prestel, 1989). >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >Dear ARLIS experts, > >Don't laugh - we are trying to identify a painting without >an artist or title. It may actually be possible to do >this because the painting seems to be but one of several >copies of the same subject. It hangs in one of our historic >homes in St. Louis (Campbell House), and has been there >since the late 19th century. The curator of the house >believes that it may have been a popular scene that was >duplicated many times for wealthy travelers. He knows >of at least 3 other copies of the same scene, one in Brazil. >I am hoping that one of you might recognize the painting >from a description, or be able to steer me in the right >direction. > >A young woman is sitting(on a rock?) in the right foreground. >Mountain peaks rise in the background. She is staring >somewhat blankly to her right (her gaze would fall outside >the picture space); her arms hang fairly limply at her side. >She is wearing what looks to me to be early 19th century >dress (perhaps central European national costume?), with >a red kerchief around her dark hair. A young man stands to >her right, bending toward her and gesturing with both arms >(one toward her, one pointing outside the painting about >where she is looking), and looking at her. He is wearing >boots, knee-pants, a jacket and a hat, and has a hurdy-gurdy >strapped around his body. I would say he is intensely entreating >her about something except that their faces are so mild and blank. > >The curator of the historic house believes the style to be >the Dusseldorf school, and I certanly can t disagree. >The landscape, light, costume and general romantic feel >of the painting would fit with that school. It is in >an elaborate carved and gilded frame and measures 67.5 >inches high by 48.5 inches wide. > >Any suggestions or guidance at all will be gratefully received... > > >Suzy Frechette >St. Louis Public Library >[log in to unmask] > Jeffrey Weidman Associate Librarian, Access Services and Collection Development Spencer Art Reference Library Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 4525 Oak Street Kansas City, MO 64111 phone: 816-751-0409 FAX: 816-561-7154 e-mail: [log in to unmask]