Wondrous Birds
Artist
Hans Thoma
German, 1839–1924
Date1892
MediumOil on cardboard
Dimensions36 3/8 x 29 1/8 in. (92.4 x 74 cm)
Frame: 42 1/2 x 35 1/4 x 2 in. (108 x 89.5 x 5.1 cm)
Frame: 42 1/2 x 35 1/4 x 2 in. (108 x 89.5 x 5.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineAnonymous Gift
Object number91.12
On View
On viewProvenanceCountess Luisa Erdödy, Novi Marof, Croatia, Austria-Hungary, by 1909; [Galerie Oscar Hermes, Munich, Germany, n.d. (per label)]; Max von Bleichert (d. 1947), Leipzig, Germany, n.d.; Sale, Berlin, Rudolph Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, December 1931, lot 56, illus. pl. 28; Prof. and Mrs. Arthur Woldemar Meyer, Berlin; to son, Horst Meyer, 1933 [held in trust by adoptive parents, Prof. and Mrs. Kurt Heinrich Meyer, Geneva, Switzerland, 1933–1979]; Prof. and Mrs. Horst Meyer, Durham, NC, 1979; given to NCMA, 1991.
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