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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow


Heute roth, Morgen tod
Today Red, Tomorrow Dead
Eugen Napoleon Neureuther (German, 1806–1882)
1839

Medium/Technique Etching
Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK4140
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Marks Recto, the artist's blind stamp
Verso, in lavender ink, the collector's mark of Sylvester Koehler (Lugt 1580)
Verso, in lavender ink, the mark of the MFA's Koehler collection (Lugt 1581)
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: October 20, 1898)

NOTE:
Koehler was the first curator of prints at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited the majority of his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.