Michael Neher
A Street in Tivoli
Oil on canvas. 57 x 48 cm.
Monogrammed and dated lower left: MN 1832.
The artist's first iteration of this motif was purchased by King Frederick William III of Prussia in 1830 at an exhibition of the Munich Art Association. The painting hung in Potsdam Palace as of 1831 but was destroyed in WWII (see “Zerstört – Entführt – Verschollen. Die Verluste der preußischen Schlösser im Zweiten Weltkrieg”, ed. by Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin Brandenburg, p. 338, no. GK I 4346).
This “Street in Tivoli”, painted two years later, was also exhibited by the Munich Art Association and acquired by the Hanover Art Association for a raffle in 1833 (Boetticher op. Cit.) The winner remained anonymous and the painting was lost without trace for many years until it was rediscovered at an auction in Munich in 1998.
The work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by Günter Meier.
Provenance
Private ownership, Berlin. - Sotheby's Munich 30 June 1998, lot 27. - Private ownership, Belgium. - Lempertz, Cologne 20 May 2019, lot 1517. - Acquired there.
Literature
Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 1891-1901, unamended edition 1941, vol. II, p. 133, no. 8.
Exhibitions
Kunstverein München 1832 (printout of the exhibition lists available). - Kunstverein Hanover 1833 (purchased here for a raffle).