Live Auction 7893Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolours
Sigmund Walter Hampel (Vienna 1868-1949)
Lot 191

Sigmund Walter Hampel (Vienna 1868-1949)

The dream of Joseph Haydn while composing The Creation

Closed6 December 2012

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Sigmund Walter Hampel (Vienna 1868-1949)
The dream of Joseph Haydn while composing The Creation
signed and inscribed 'Sigm. Walter Hampel. pinx. Josef Haydn'
pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour, pen and green wash framing lines
22½ x 15½ in. (57.1 x 39.3 cm.)

Specialist note

In the early 1930s, Hampel executed a series of very similar drawings showing Mozart composing various works (see Christie's, London, 27 June 1988, lots 721-23). It is likely that this imaginative idea of Haydn dates from the same period.