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) married 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