The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 21, 2023

A Beech Wood with a Resting Traveler

1803

Christoph Nathe

(German, 1753–1806)

Germany, 19th century

Brown and gray wash with extensive point of brush work, with traces of black chalk underdrawing on ivory wove paper

Support: Ivory wove paper

Sheet: 37.5 x 57.6 cm (14 3/4 x 22 11/16 in.)

Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2011.118

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Inscribed lower right in brown watercolor:" CN 1823" Verso: collector's stamp, in light brown ink: "Dr. Apelt / Zittau enclosed in a square [not in Lugt]" in graphite: "No. 6 [crossed out]" in blue ink: "Nathe"

Provenance
Arno Hoffmann, Neugersdorf, until 1928; Dr. Franz Ulrich Apelt, Zittau, thence by descent; C. G. Boerner, NYC
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2011.118