AUGUST WILHELM LEU (German, 1818-1897). VENETIAN CANAL, signed lower left. Watercolor and pencil heightened with white - Framed, sight: 18 1/2 in. x 11 1/2 in. Estimate $5,000-7,000
ARTIST : A German landscape painter, Leu studied in Dusseldorf under Schirmer. He was a Royal Professor and a memeber of the Academy of Berlin and also of the Academies of Vienna, Amsterdam and Brussels. He exhibited in Vienna, Berlin, and at the Paris Exposition in 1878. He received gold medals in Berlin and from the Belgian Order of Leopold. His works are found in collections at the National Gallery of Berlin and the Koenegsburg Museum in Stuttgart.
PROVENANCE: Princess Antonia (Infanta Antoinette von Hohenzollern, Royal House of Portugal [as indicated in German note on the verso], 1845-1913). She herself was a competent artist who did similar subjects. Paul Vogel, Lucerne, Switzerland to November, 1988
Christie's London, 11/24/1988
Private collection of an art historian, Bethesda, MD
