Private Collection, France (sale: Sotheby's, London, 9th February 2005, lot 517)
Private Collection, Italy (purchased at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Berlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, 1910

The canvas is not lined and inspection under UV light reveals no signs of retouching. The canvas is gently undulating and the impasto is rich throughout. This work is in overall very good condition.
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This is one of the earliest works in a series of landscapes that Slevogt executed in Godramstein between 1909 and 1913. Peter Finkler, the artist's father-in-law, owned a house in Godramstein in South Germany, surrounded by a verdant landscape of rolling hills in which Slevogt found inspiration for a number of paintings. It was during those years that the artist created his most accomplished Impressionist paintings and made a vital contribution to the development of German Impressionism, alongside such artists as Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth.

We would like to thank Mr Bernhard Geil for verbal confirmation of authenticity and for his assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.