August Lucas

1803 - Darmstadt - 1863

Young Italian Model Bearing a Water Jug, c. 1828

Pen in brown ink over pencil

20 x 13 cm

Inscribed lower left: “ai monti”

LITERATURE:

Zeichnungen Darmstädter Romantiker, Aus der Sammlung Hugo von Ritgen, Hamm, Darmstadt, Gießen 1984, cat. no. 61, pl. 117, p. 71.

PROVENANCE:

Collection Hugo von Ritgen (1811-1889), Darmstadt

Christie‘s, London, 28 November 1985, lot 185

Collection Dr. Stephan Seeliger, Munich

August Lucas, who from 1818 studied together with Johann Heinrich Schilbach at the Drawing Academy in Darmstadt, joined Cornelius in Munich in 1825. In 1829 he went to Italy where he was befriended by Joseph Anton Koch and for a time strongly influenced by the draughtmanship of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. The strong Nazarene influence is fully developed in our drawing.

€ 5.500