An English Stallion in Celle
Volkers, Emil (Birkenfeld/Oldenburg 1831 – Dusseldorf 1905). Holderness. The English dapple grey held by his jockey to the left. Chalk lithograph printed with delicate green tone plate. Inscribed in the stone: Emil Volkers 1855. / Gedr. b. J. Adam in München, otherwise as above & below. 39.5 x 44.7 cm.
Thieme-Becker XXXIV, 520; Boetticher, Lithographs, 1. – On mounted China. – With subtext on the mounting carton:
“ … Königl. Hannov. Landbeschäler in Celle. – Geb. 1838. / Engl. Hengst. ”
Volkers, horse & genre painter and lithographer, was pupil of the Academy in Dresden, i. a. under Schnorr von Carolsfeld, and in Munich at Albrecht & Franz Adam. The former as particularly horse & battle painter “progenitor of a Bavarian artist family active in four generations”. Julius (1826 Munich 1874), his 4th son, as well landscape & animal painter as lithographer, received his lithographic training at Senefelder himself and established his own printery in 1848, in which during Volkers’ time there his 22-sheet set “Representations of Horses from the Royal Stud-Farm at Celle, painted and lithographed by Emil Volkers ” (1857) was printed. A further 6-sheet suite Volkers – 1857/67 studies at Dusseldorf where he returned to after years in Romania and Italy – dedicated to the representation of excellent horses from the grand duchy Oldenburg.
Here then one of his sovereign ,
most accurately pronounced Celle stallion portraits .
Offer no. 15,414 / EUR 630. / export price EUR 599. (c. US$ 839.) + shipping
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