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DAY & FABER master drawings

    Franz Krüger (Großbadegast 1797 - Berlin 1857)

    Study of a horse rider, c. 1820

    Description:

    inscribed, upper right: 50 / 778
    black chalk
    255 x 203 mm

    Provenance:

    Private collection, France
    Private collection, London

    Note:

    This drawing of a mounted rider is a study for the painting Ein Marsch pressischer Kavallerie, first exhibited at the Berlin Academy exhibition in 1820, and recently with H.W. Fichter Kunstandel in Frankfurt. A subsequent study for the same figure is in the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett.

    Study of a horse rider, c. 1820