Portrait of the Artist’s Daughter, Marie
- Date
- 1817
- Material
- Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 205
- Dimensions
- 29 1/2 x 17 1/4 in. (74.9 x 43.8 cm)
- Credit Line
- Friends Endowment Fund and funds given by Ruth Sudholt Wunderlich, Mrs. W. W. Hoyt, Cora E. Ludwig, Nellie Ballard White, Dr. and Mrs. Gary Hansen, Mrs. C. L. Arnold, Mrs. Avis H. Blewett, Mr. Edward Mallinckrodt Sr., August C. Albers, Jane and Warren Shapleigh, and Mrs. Charles Nagel Sr. in memory of Charles Nagel Sr., by exchange
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 187:1995.1
NOTES
Karl Friedrich Schinkel is best known as an architect but he was also an accomplished painter: he produced images of grand Gothic cathedrals but created his most intimate works in private images of his immediate family.
This picture of Marie is from an unfinished group portrait of the artist’s three children that was later cut apart. Each child wears a playful, enigmatic smile and is posed against a classical Greek frieze.
This picture of Marie is from an unfinished group portrait of the artist’s three children that was later cut apart. Each child wears a playful, enigmatic smile and is posed against a classical Greek frieze.
Provenance
1841 -
Susanne Marie Sophie Schinkel (b.1811), Berlin, Germany, by inheritance from the artist; Hans Paul Schinkel (b.1860), by inheritance from his aunt; Frieda Schinkel, by inheritance from her husband; Dr. Hermann Georg, by inheritance from his sister-in-law; descendants of Dr. Hermann Georg [1]
- 1995
Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, acquired from the descendants of Dr. Hermann Georg [2]
1995 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Galerie Arnold-Livie [3]
Notes:
The main source for this provenance is the publication by Galerie Arnold-Livie which includes this painting along with an essay by Helmut Börsch-Supan [Börsch-Supan, Helmut. "Schinkel's Gruppenbildnis seiner Kinder Marie, Susanne und Karl." "Sehnsucht zur Kindheit. Kinderdarstellungen in der Romantik und ihre Vorläufer." Munich: Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, April 1995, p. 34-40]. Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[1] Schinkel began these three paintings of his children as one life-size group portrait. The painting was unfinished at the time of Schinkel's death in 1841, and his descendants later cut out these portraits from the larger canvas. Alfred von Wolzogen, Schinkel's son-in-law, includes the painting in his multi-volume catalogue raisonné of Schinkel's work. The entry in the 1862 publication states (translated): "Schinkel's children, Marie, Susanne and Karl, seven, six and four years old. Begun in 1817 or 1818, but not finished. 7 feet high, 4 foot 11 inches wide. (In the possession of Miss Susanne Schinkel in Berlin)" [Wolzogen, Alfred von. "Aus Schinkel's Nachlaß: Reisetagebücher, Briefe und Aphorismen. Mitgetheilt und mit einem Verzeichniß sämmtlicher Werke Schinkel's versehen." Berlin: Verlag der Königlichen Geheimen Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei (R. Decker), vol. II, 1862, p. 340, no. 26].
The invoice from Galerie Arnoldi-Livie lists many of the former owners of the work, and their relationship to the artist, further indicating that it remained in the family for generations, until it was acquired from the descendants of Dr. Hermann Georg [invoice dated October 19, 1995, SLAM document files]. According to a family tree in Alfred von Wolzogen's publication, Susanne Marie Sophie Schinkel (b.1811), the artist's daughter, never married or had any children. Her brother Karl, however, had six children, including one named Hans Paul Schinkel (b.1860). Susanne Schinkel, who still owned the painting(s) in 1862, bequeathed the picture to her nephew, Hans Paul Schinkel, the artist's grandson.
[2] See note [1].
[3] Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, October 26, 1995.
Susanne Marie Sophie Schinkel (b.1811), Berlin, Germany, by inheritance from the artist; Hans Paul Schinkel (b.1860), by inheritance from his aunt; Frieda Schinkel, by inheritance from her husband; Dr. Hermann Georg, by inheritance from his sister-in-law; descendants of Dr. Hermann Georg [1]
- 1995
Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, acquired from the descendants of Dr. Hermann Georg [2]
1995 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Galerie Arnold-Livie [3]
Notes:
The main source for this provenance is the publication by Galerie Arnold-Livie which includes this painting along with an essay by Helmut Börsch-Supan [Börsch-Supan, Helmut. "Schinkel's Gruppenbildnis seiner Kinder Marie, Susanne und Karl." "Sehnsucht zur Kindheit. Kinderdarstellungen in der Romantik und ihre Vorläufer." Munich: Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, April 1995, p. 34-40]. Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[1] Schinkel began these three paintings of his children as one life-size group portrait. The painting was unfinished at the time of Schinkel's death in 1841, and his descendants later cut out these portraits from the larger canvas. Alfred von Wolzogen, Schinkel's son-in-law, includes the painting in his multi-volume catalogue raisonné of Schinkel's work. The entry in the 1862 publication states (translated): "Schinkel's children, Marie, Susanne and Karl, seven, six and four years old. Begun in 1817 or 1818, but not finished. 7 feet high, 4 foot 11 inches wide. (In the possession of Miss Susanne Schinkel in Berlin)" [Wolzogen, Alfred von. "Aus Schinkel's Nachlaß: Reisetagebücher, Briefe und Aphorismen. Mitgetheilt und mit einem Verzeichniß sämmtlicher Werke Schinkel's versehen." Berlin: Verlag der Königlichen Geheimen Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei (R. Decker), vol. II, 1862, p. 340, no. 26].
The invoice from Galerie Arnoldi-Livie lists many of the former owners of the work, and their relationship to the artist, further indicating that it remained in the family for generations, until it was acquired from the descendants of Dr. Hermann Georg [invoice dated October 19, 1995, SLAM document files]. According to a family tree in Alfred von Wolzogen's publication, Susanne Marie Sophie Schinkel (b.1811), the artist's daughter, never married or had any children. Her brother Karl, however, had six children, including one named Hans Paul Schinkel (b.1860). Susanne Schinkel, who still owned the painting(s) in 1862, bequeathed the picture to her nephew, Hans Paul Schinkel, the artist's grandson.
[2] See note [1].
[3] Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, October 26, 1995.
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