Lot #163: RUDOLF MULLER - Dorf in den Alpen - Oil on canvas

                 

Artist: Rudolf Muller (Swiss, 1802-1885).
Title: "Dorf in den Alpen".
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Date: Composed c1852.
Dimensions: Frame size: 19 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (502 x 578 mm). Image size: 16 x 18 in. (406 x 457 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed lower right. Good to very good condition; old patch. Literature/catalogue raisonne: In preparation for submission to Johannes Fichter, Weisslingen, Switzerland, for inclusion in his forthcoming catalogue raisonne of Muller's work. Comment(s): Oil paintings by Muller are scarce. The auction record for one of his paintings is CHF15,000 (US$10,056) (hammer) at Sotheby's Zurich, 6/17/1998, lot #59. He was one of the foremost, and most meticulous, Swiss landscape painters of the 19th Century. [27886-10-1600]