Hans von Marées

Elberfeld 1837 - 1887 Rome

Study for the Painting “Three Men”, 1874

Brown wash over chalk, heightened in blue and grey

18,2 x 25,8 cm

Inscribed lower left: “B” (Balling)

verso: Fragment of a head

EXHIBITED:

According to Meier-Graefe: M.A.B. 1909

LITERATURE:

Julius Meier-Graefe: Hans von Marées - Sein Leben und sein Werk, vol. II, Munich and Leipzig 1909, p. 242, cat. no. 305

PROVENANCE:

Mary Balling *, Partenkirchen

Private collection, Switzerland

* Mary Balling (Heidelberg 1854 – 1919 Garmisch-Partenkirchen) was married to the art theorist Konrad Fiedler, who was close to Hans on Marées, Anselm Feuerbach and Adolf von Hildebrand. After his death in 1895 she married Hofkapellmeister Michael Balling