Fountain and Pergola in Italy

1830/35

Ernest Christian Frederick Petzholdt (Danish, 1805–1838)

Status: On View, Gallery 221
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Ernest Christian Frederik Petzholdt
Title: Fountain and Pergola in Italy
Place: Denmark (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1830–1835
Medium: Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, in ink: F. Petzholdt
Dimensions: 39 × 50 cm (15 1/2 × 20 in.); Framed: 50.8 × 62.3 cm (20 × 24 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Connie and Donald Patterson Endowment
Reference Number: 2002.377
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Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 2002-2003 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), p. 44 (ill.).

Probably Gottlieb Collin, the artist’s brother in law; probably by descent to his family. Private collection, Denmark [see document regarding the painting from Galerie Jean-François Heim, in curatorial file]; sold in auction in Denmark to Tom Jensen [according to an email from Jean-François Heim to Martha Wolff dated August 1, 2002, in curatorial file; and correspondence with Knut Buchman]; sold by him to Galerie Jean-François Heim, Paris, by 2002 [according to the email cited above]; purchased by the Art Institute with funds from the Connie and Donald Patterson Endowment, 2002.

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