29 DRAWIVGS - Arnoldi-Livie | Fine Art Dealers
29 DRAWIVGS - Arnoldi-Livie | Fine Art Dealers
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BonAVenturA GeneLLI<br />
Berlin 1798 – 1868 weimar<br />
18 Harmonia Charms Amor and Psyche<br />
watercolor over pen in grey ink and graphite<br />
412 x 567 mm<br />
signed and inscribed lower right: “harmonia amor Psyche /<br />
B: genelli fecit”<br />
literatUre:<br />
hans ebert, Buonaventura Genelli, Leben und Werk, weimar 1971,<br />
p. 223, fn. 172<br />
ProVenance:<br />
collection Michael Berolzheimer, garmisch-Partenkirchen<br />
adolf weinmüller, Munich, March 9 – 10, 1939, no. 602<br />
adolf grius, Berlin<br />
albertina, Vienna (inv. no. 28394)<br />
restituted to the heirs of Michael Berolzheimer in 2010<br />
the preparatory sketch in pencil (235 x 335 mm) is preserved<br />
in the collection of the Museum Boymans van Beuningen,<br />
rotterdam (inv. no. Dn 375/272). Further versions of the theme<br />
can be found in the Museum of <strong>Fine</strong> arts, leipzig and the Kupferstichkabinett,<br />
Berlin (for ill. see ebert 1971, p. 121, no. 108).<br />
in 1832 Bonaventura genelli received the commission to decorate<br />
the main hall of the so-called “römisches haus”, the residence<br />
of the publisher hermann härtl, in leipzig. the client proposed<br />
frescoes with mythological themes, prompting genelli to leave<br />
rome, then his current residence, to complete the assignment in<br />
leipzig. the present sheet represents one of the themes the artist<br />
intended to realize.
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