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Buonaventura Genelli (Berlin 1798-1868 Weimar)
Lot 127

Buonaventura Genelli (Berlin 1798-1868 Weimar)

Twelve illustrations for the works of Homer

Closed8 July 2008

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Buonaventura Genelli (Berlin 1798-1868 Weimar)
Twelve illustrations for the works of Homer
some inscribed with titles
pen and brown ink on tracing paper, pen and brown ink framing lines
5 7/8 x 9 3/8 in. (150 x 237 mm.) and smaller (12)

Specialist note

In 1837 Genelli was commissioned by the publishing house Cotta, original publisher for both Goethe and Schiller, to illustrate two editions of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The present twelve drawings come from this series of 49 sheets and were drawn in preparation for the commission. The drawing for the frontispiece is in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich (inv. no. 1965/45 ZG) (E. Nielsen, Bonaventura Genelli. Werk und Kunstauffassung. Ein Beitrag zur Kunst des Späten Klassizismus in Deutschland, Ph.D., Munich University, 2005, p. 282).