Sep 17, 2020 - Sale 2542

Sale 2542 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
HERMANN HERZOG
Evening on Sognefjord, Norway.

Oil on canvas, circa 1855-60. 205x305 mm; 8x12 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto, and titled in pencil, upper stretcher bar verso.
Ex-collection private collection, New York.

Born in Germany, Herzog (1832-1932) traveled extensively through Norway in his twenties before immigrating to the U.S. and settling permanently near Philadelphia. During the 1870s, he went to California and Mexico, painting numerous western landscape scenes along the way for which he later became renowned.