Die Stadtwache. Um 1850/55.
Oil on panel.
Wichmann 124. Lower right with a wiped estate stamp (Lugt 2307). Verso with partly fragmentarily preserved (gallery) labels, rhomb-shaped labels and a stamp of the art supplies store Fritz Schachinger, Munich. 40.5 x 31 cm (15.9 x 12.2 in).

We are grateful to Mr Detlef Rosenberger, who inspected the original artwork, for his kind support in cataloging this lot. The work will be included into the forthcoming catalog raisonné.

PROVENANCE: Artist's estate.
Private collection.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.

EXHIBITION: Spitzweg exhibition, Moderne Galerie Thannhauser, Munich, September 1916, no. 1 (with illu. on p. 8, with the gallery label on the reverse, no. 4504).
Special exhibition Carl Spitzweg, Hugo Helbing, Berlin, February 20 - March 20, 1927, no. 5 ("Torbogen mit Wachsoldaten").

LITERATURE: Günther Roennefahrt, Carl Spitzweg. Beschreibendes Verzeichnis seiner Gemälde, Ölstudien und Aquarelle, Munich 1960, p. 211, no. 739 (with illu.).