Lot 153
Carl Theodor Reiffenstein (Reiff Stein)(1820-1893)
Lot 153 Details
Carl Theodor Reiffenstein (Reiff Stein)(1820-1893), German
15 TOPOGRAPHIC LANDSCAPE AND CITY VIEWS
15 watercolours, some “en grisaille”; most signed and dated 1845, including the following scenes:
1. Carriage, signed and dated 1845 lower left;
2. Boats in Harbour, signed and dated 1845 lower right;
3. Carriage by Cathedral, signed and dated 1845 lower left;
4. Figures on a Riverbank with Ruin on hilltop, signed and dated 1845 lower right;
5. Lane toward a Castle, signed and dated 1845 lower left;
6. Figures walking outside Classic building, signed and dated 1845 lower left;
7. Village Market scene, signed and dated 1845 lower right;
8. Market scene (vertical), signed and dated 1845 lower left;
9. Women Market vendors, signed and dated 1845 lower left
10. River with boats in calm, unsigned
11. Figures Haying, signed and dated 1845 lower right
12. Two Figures at a river beneath mountains, signed and dated 1845 lower right;
13. Officers in a Hall, signed and dated 1845 lower left;
14. Street Scene with Carriages and Men in Top Hats, signed and dated 1845 lower right;
15. Figures Boating with Estate on hilltop, signed and dated 1845 lower right,
Some on laid paper, some with partial watermark, most mounted to the pages of a Victorian hardcover album with gilt lettered spine “Album”, others unmounted and loose.
Together with four watercolours by others including:
Carl Ludvig Thilson Locher (1851-1915) Danish
BARQUE IN STILL WATERS; Watercolour; signed lower left;
Attributed to Clarkson Stanfield (1793-1867) British
FISHERFOLK ON A BEACH POINTING OUT TO A HARBOUR;
Watercolour; signed with initial monogram lower right;
Attributed to Samuel Prout (1783-1852) British
WOMEN AT A WELL, Watercolour; inscribed “Prout” in pencil verso;
Russian School (20th Century), FESTIVAL
Various small sizes
Together with: Three postcards (two depicting Tuxedo Park, N.Y.), one addressed to “Master Anthony Adamson, Port Credit, Ontario” and postmarked “New York, 1911” and inscribed: “I hope you will put this in your book”; two sepia photographs, one depicting Tuxedo Park; two aquatints of published prints, trimmed, likely by Reiffenstein; and two reproduction prints by others, all contained loose in the Victorian hardcover album.
Fifteen 4.75" x 7.25" — 12.1 x 18.4 cm.; 9.5" x 12.5" — 24.1 x 31.8 cm.
Estimate $6,000-$9,000
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