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Luft
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Christian Bernhard Rode (German, 1725–1797)
probably 1784

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet (approximate): 15 × 10 cm (5 7/8 × 3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number2017.303
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ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jacobs 224c; Nagler 179
Signed Lower left, in plate: B. Rode
InscriptionsLower center, in plate: Luft
ProvenanceProbably descended in the Demel family, Vienna, to Anna Demel (b. 1872–d. 1956), Vienna, and then to her niece, Klára Demel (d. 1965) and her husband, Friedrich Ludwig Berzeviczy-Pallavicini (b. 1909–d. 1989), Vienna and New York; about 1990, sold in New York after Berzeviczy-Pallavicini’s death to Michael R. Weintruab, Inc. (dealer), New York; 2017, sold by Michael R. Weintraub to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 19, 2017)