NEW ACQUISITIONS PAINTINGS, WATERCOLORS, DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURE 1780 – 1960 FALL EXHIBITION October 23 rd through December 15 th, 2012 Exhibition organized by Robert Kashey and David Wojciechowski Catalog by Jennifer S. Brown SHEPHERD & DEROM GALLERIES 58 East 79 th Street New York, N. Y. 10075 Tel: 1 212 861 4050 Fax: 1 212 772 1314 [email protected] www.shepherdgallery.com CATALOG © Copyright: Robert J. F. Kashey for Shepherd Gallery, Associates, 20 12 COVER ILLUSTRATION: Hermann August Krause, Interior View of the Lessing Theatre, Berlin , 1888, cat. no. 14. GRAPHIC DESIGN: Keith Stout PHOTOGRAPHY: Hisao Oka TECHNICAL NOTES: All measurements are in inches and in centimeters; height precedes width. All drawings and paintings are framed. Prices on request. All works subject to prior sale. SHEPHERD GALLERY SERVICES has framed, matted, and restored all of the objects in this exhibition, if required. The Service Department is open to the public by appointment, Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Tel: (212) 744 3392; fax (212) 744 1525; e-mail: [email protected]. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: We are grateful to the following for their assistance with individual catalog entries: Charles Chatfield-Taylor, catalog nos. 29, 30, 31 Elisabeth Kashey, catalog nos. 2, 3, 15, 18, 26 Leanne M. Zalewski, catalog nos. 12, 41 1 SMITH, John “Warwick” 1749 - 1831 English School VIEW OF THE LAKE AT WALENSTADT, 1781 Reed pen, grey ink and washes on mediumweight white Smith and Towne spent the summer of 1781 laid paper. No discernible watermark. 6” x 9 5/8” (15.3 x traveling together from Italy to England via an 24.4 cm). Inscribed with reed pen and grey ink at lower easterly route over the Alps. They entered right corner: Wesen .; near center: lake. ; at lower left cor - Switzerland through the Splügen Pass, where the ner: river. / Lake of Wallenstad [now Walenstadt] , with / present work was painted. Dozens of watercolor the linth winding to lake Zurig, from / height of road from drawings by both Smith and Towne from this jour - Kernzen [now Kerenz] to Mollis . On verso, at upper right, ney are in the collection of Tate Britain, including inscribed in graphite: A… 1102/T4909/22 . Inscribed in ink a similar View of Lake Wallenstad (1781) by on back of original mount as a note: Thomas [sic] Smith Towne. The bold outlines, simplified forms, and – topographical artist working 1780-1822. He travelled in strong greens and purples of the present watercolor Italy and Switzerland with Pars and Towne. This drawing show the influence of Towne on Smith’s style dur - is taken from a sketchbook of the artist’s [sic]. ing this period of his career; Smith’s later works are highly finished and intricately detailed. Note: John Smith was the son of a gardener to Today Lake Wallenstad (also known as Sawrey Gilpin (1733-1807), the animalier painter, Walensee) is best known from the title of one of whose son, William Sawrey Gilpin (1762-1843), was Franz Liszt’s piano pieces, Années de Pèlerinage a drawing master and landscape designer. Smith trav - (1855). The lake also figures in Lord Byron’s Childe eled the English countryside as a student of Sawrey Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812-1818). Gilpin. Soon thereafter, the young artist secured gen - erous financial support to study in Italy from 1776 to J.S.B. 1781, where he traveled and sketched with William Pars (1742-1782) and Francis Towne (1739-1816). Reference: After his return to England, where he settled near his Martin Hardie, Water-Colour Painting in Britain: I. patron George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick, the The Eighteenth Century (London, 1967), pp. 113- artist became known as “Warwick” Smith. 123. 2 FERRI, Angelo active circa 1819 - 1822 Italian School SET DESIGN FOR A GOTHIC CRYPT, circa 1819-1822 Brown ink, grey wash and graphite on heavyweight off- Italian set designers often worked within a fam - white laid paper. 11 1/4” x 18” (28.5 x 45.7 cm). Lower ily enterprise. For instance, from mid-18 th century right corner missing. Watermark as read through recto: well into the 19 th century, almost every European crowned escutcheon with hunter’s horn above letters C court had a set designer from the prominent fami - M. The paper around columns and other architectural ele - ly Galli-Bibiena. The brothers Galliari from ments has been cut out, possibly to superimpose it on a Turino, contemporaries of Angelo Ferri, worked so different background. closely together that they signed themselves fratel - li Galliari . Angelo Ferri seems to have been the Note: The present set designs were once part of a overlooked relative of his set designing clan, which group in which two related drawings were dated included Domenico Ferri (1795-1869) and his 1819 and 1822, respectively. One of these, Set for sons, Gaetano and Augusto. Based on the dates of Rossini’s “Tancredi” (exhibited Shepherd Gallery, this group of drawings, Angelo must have been of Winter 1989-90), bears the following signature and the same generation as Domenico, who was a close inscription: piazza gottica di Angelo Ferri per l’opera friend of Rossini (1792-1868) and a set designer at il tancredi in Madrid l’anno 1822 . The present draw - the Théâtre Italien in Paris at least as early as 1830. ings are likely designs for the same opera; not only Although Domenico designed many Rossini are all four stylistically and thematically very similar, operas, he is not known to have drawn sets for but the sheets share a pair of identical watermarks, Tancredi . The fully signed, dated and titled sheet making it safe to assume they were from the same in the present group indicates that Angelo Ferri batch of paper the artist had access to in Madrid. had the honor of participating in the first produc - Composer Gioachino Rossini’s Tancredi first tion of Tancredi at the Spanish theater. opened at Teatro la Fenice in Venice in 1813. It became more widely known after its performance E.K. in Vienna a short time later. The delay in its pro - duction over a decade later in Madrid may have References: been a result of Carlos III’s decision to forbid Encyclopaedia di Spettacolo Italian opera singers and actors to perform on the Heinz Kindermann, Theatergeschichte Europas Spanish stage. The ban was lifted in 1820. (Salzburg, 1957-1974), vols. 4 and 5. 3 FERRI, Angelo active circa 1819 - 1822 Italian School SET DESIGN FOR A RENAISSANCE HALL WITH PAINTINGS, circa 1819-1822 Brown ink and grey wash over some graphite on heavyweight off-white laid paper. Watermark as seen through verso across center: ALM . 12 5/8” x 18 1/8” (32 x 46 cm). On verso in brown ink over graphite: study of a round temple. Note: See cat. no. 2. 4 MOLKNECHT, Johann Dominik 1793 - 1876 Austrian-French School COUNT OF CHAMBORD AT AGE EIGHT, 1828 Bronze with light brown patination on square bronze base. of Chambord published his Royalist Manifesto , Overall height: 13 1/8” (33.3 cm). Width from base at left which declared, “People of France, I am among to hilt of sword at right: 4 1/4” (12.8 cm). Depth from front you.” But the manifesto closed with the king-in- to back of base: 4 1/8” (10.5 cm). waiting insisting that the drapeau tricolore , the Tricolor flag, be replaced by the white fleur-de-lys Note: Born after his father Charles duc de Berry standard of the Bourbon dynasty. To many, this was assassinated, Henri of Artois, Duke of flag was an offense to the liberties for which so Bordeaux, Count of Chambord (1820-1883) many had fought and died; the Tricolor had been became the center of the claims of the Legitimist adopted in its place as a symbol of moderation and party in France. Poised to succeed his grandfather nationalism after the Revolution of 1789. Charles X, who had been forced to abdicate the Although Henri was willing to compromise on the throne on August 2, 1830, Henri V was never Tricolor flag with the fleur-de-lys insignia, this was crowned, and his unofficial reign is considered to ultimately rejected. In 1875 a permanent constitu - have lasted a total of only seven days. On August tion was written, and France was officially a repub - 9, the ten-year-old Henri was outmaneuvered by lic by a single vote. his older cousin, Louis Philippe. Instead of acting Molknecht was born in Tyrol (Austria), but he as regent on behalf of his young cousin, Louis lived in Paris most of his life and became a French Philippe convinced the popularly elected Chamber citizen in 1848. He was a student of Canova and of Deputies to proclaim him Louis Philippe I, King exhibited at the Salon in Paris between 1831 and of the French. Charles X and his entire family, 1857. including Henri, were forced into exile. Forty years later, after suffering a horrible J.S.B. defeat in the Franco-Prussian war, many hoped that a restoration of the monarchy might bring Reference: peace and stability. In 1871, the Legitimist party Eugen Trapp, Dominik Mahlknecht: Ein Grödner was in a position to negotiate Henri’s return from als französischer Staatskünstler (San Martin de Tor: exile. In anticipation of this great event, the Count Istitut Ladin Micurà de Rü, 1991), ill. p. 128-29. 5 MICHALOWSKI, Piotr 1800 - 1855 Polish School STUDIES OF HORSES AND CAVALRY CHARGE verso: STUDIES OF HORSES AND MOUNTED FIGURES Graphite and ink on mediumweight tan laid paper. Water - painter, Michalowski began a more focused study mark vertically across center of sheet: GETTEL .