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Cicada on a Laurel Branch with a View of Florence
Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789–1869)
1829
Medium/Technique
Graphite pencil with black chalk and touches of pen and black ink on wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 20.5 x 17 cm (8 1/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund
Accession Number2000.1003
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Descriptionmounted with a transcription of Anacreon's ode to a cicada (canto XLIII) in the hand of Carus.
Signed
the poem signed and dated at lower right in pen and brown ink:
C G. Carus / d. XXXI Marz / 1829
C G. Carus / d. XXXI Marz / 1829
Marks
Label of Prince Johan Georg of Saxony, numered S.I, No. 484
ProvenancePrince Johann Georg of Saxony (1869-1938, Dresden, Lugt 1162c); possibly sold Leipzig, C. G. Boerner, 8 May 1941; Dr. Robert Ammann; Antiquariat Fritz Eggert, Stuttgart; with Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt; purchased by MFA December 13, 2000