Lot 125 Wilhelm Schutze (1840 – 1898)

Title: The Schoolmaster

Medium: Oil on canvas. Signed Wilh. Schutze and inscribed München (lower right)

Size: 38 ½” x 30 7/8”; 97.8 cm x 78.4 cm

Provenance: Acquired through the Prendergast Bequest, 1891. Sotheby’s NY

Literature: Descriptive Catalogue of the Art Gallery of the James Prendergast Library Association, Jamestown, New York, 1906, no. 32

Katherine E. Manthorne, The Mirror Up to Nature: A Catalogue of 19th and 20th Century Paintings in the Collection of The James Prendergast Library Association, Jamestown, New York, 1982, p. 46

Estimate: $ 6,000 – S 8,000                           

Sold for $46,250 (includes buyer’s premium)