KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL (Neuruppin 1781-1841 Berlin) View of an Italian Coastline.
Pencil on blueish cream laid paper, circa 1805. 116x230 mm; 4 5/8x9 1/8 inches. Indistinctly titled (?) in pencil, lower center recto, and numbered "26" in red pencil, upper right recto. Ex-collection the estate of the artist; Theodor Schinkel (the artist's son); thence by descent to Dorothea Schinkel (the artist's great granddaughter); their sale at Christie's, London, October 11, 1995.
Thecurrent work was executed by Schinkel during his first trip to Italy.
