Franz von Stuck

Die Sinnlichkeit

c. 1891

etchings, proof impressions

 

Franz von Stuck (1863-1928)

"Die Sinnlichkeit" ("Sensuality")

etching on buff Japan paper

proof impression

circa 1891

21,7 x 17,8 cm (8 9/16 x 7 in.) (plate), 33,5 x 23,7 cm (sheet)

signed in pencil "Franz v Stuck"

The Daulton Collection

 

Provenance: Friedrich Quiring (born 1886), Eberswalde (collector's stamp verso in brown, Lugt 1041C)

 

A rare proof impression before the plate was cleaned. 

 

A proof impression was sold at the auction of the Lanna Collection at Lepke, Berlin, in May, 1911; the auction catalogue stated that about 15 proof impressions had been printed.


General References for this etching:


Otto Julius Bierbaum, Stuck, Bielefeld 1908, p. 17, fig. 14. 


J. Poetter, Franz von Stuck, Munich 1984, 223, 22.

The Daulton Collection owns another proof impression of this print:

Franz von Stuck (1863-1928)

"Die Sinnlichkeit" ("Sensuality")

etching on Velin

proof impression, before the plate was cleaned

circa 1891

21,7 x 17,8 cm (8 9/16 x 7 in.) (plate), 36 x 23 cm (sheet)

signed in pencil

below signature, inscribed "No: 4. Sinnlichkeit"

The Daulton Collection


condition: full margins; somewhat light-streaked; slight scratch marks; handwritten signature somewhat faded or indistinct (as is typical for von Stuck's etchings).


There are two stamps on the verso of this impression:

 

"K. B. H. Z. A. München," the stamp of the Royal Bavarian Main Customs Office (Königlich Bayrisches Hauptzollamt)

 

"Bundesdenkmalamt," the Federal Monuments Office of Austria.



 


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