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Young couple returning from the forest trail.

Sold for €19,000 at Van Ham Kunstauktionen on Nov 16, 2007.

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Lot description

She is holding a stoneware jar and a bucket, he a scythe and rake from the fieldwork. Signed and dated right on the stone: J. Becker von Worms Frankfurt 1842. Oil on canvas. 88,5 x 70cm. Framed. Comparitive Literature: Boetticher, Friedrich von: Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Band I,1, p. 63: Dort unter No. 22 aufgeführtes Werk Heimkehrende Schnitter (Hessen) mit der Provenienz Konsul Boeker, New York; Müller-Singer, Künstlerlexikon, Bd. 1, p.89: here listed under the title: Heimkehrende Schnitter.

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