Catalogue entry
Inscribed 'M. Bauer' b.l
Watercolour and gouache on off-white paper, 27 1/8 x 20 1/2 (69 x 52)
Presented by Sir Michael Sadler in memory of Lady Sadler through the NACF 1931
Prov: With van Wisselingh, Amsterdam (purchased from the artist 1897); J.H. van Eeghen, Amsterdam; with van Wisselingh, Amsterdam, 1907; Sir Michael Sadler, Oxford, 1909
Lit: Michael Sadleir, Michael Ernest Sadler (London 1949), pp.207-9, 222
Though known at one time as 'Amiens Cathedral', this represents the west front of the Cathedral at Strasbourg. A rather similar drawing in charcoal of the lower part of the façade is in the Mesdag Museum, The Hague. This was in the collection of H.W. Mesdag by 1891 as it was lent by him to the exhibition of the Hollandsche Teekenmaatschappij in The Hague in that year. Miss E. van Schendel of the Mesdag Museum writes (11 January 1974) that Bauer often went to the North of France, or passed through it on his way to Constantinople or Africa… (read more)
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