Am Sonntagmorgen. 1851 /60.
Oil on canvas , laid on board.
With estate stamp in lower left. 22.8 x 15.2 cm (8.9 x 5.9 in).

We are grateful to Mr Detlef Rosenberger for his kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (verso with several estate stamps).
Otto Spitzweg, artist's nephew, since 1886 (verso with label of ownership, inscribed both in typography and by hand in ink, from March 20, 1913).
Commeter, Hamburg, auction on March 22, 1932, no. 194 (with illu. on plate 3).
Neumeister, Munich, auction on July 5, 2000, lot 759 (with color illu. on p. 356).
Private collection Southern Germany.

LITERATURE: Günther Roennefahrt, Carl Spitzweg. Beschreibendes Verzeichnis seiner Gemälde, Ölstudien und Aquarelle, München 1960, WVZ-Nr. 880 ("Am Sonntagmorgen", mit den abweichenden Maßen 21,5 x 14,5 cm).
Kunstpreis Jahrbuch 2001, Bd. II, S. 384 (o. Abb.).