Robert VEITH
(Dresden 1810)
Panoramic Landscape near Dresden with a Country Estate
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Pen and black ink, laid down on a contemporary mount.
Signed and dated R. Veith. fecit 1831. in the lower right margin of the mount.
Further inscribed (in a modern hand) R. Veith fec. 1831 and numbered 541 on the backing sheet.
129 x 334 mm. (5 1/8 x 13 1/8 in.) [sheet]
137 x 343 mm. (5 3/8 x 13 1/2 in.) [with mount]
Signed and dated R. Veith. fecit 1831. in the lower right margin of the mount.
Further inscribed (in a modern hand) R. Veith fec. 1831 and numbered 541 on the backing sheet.
129 x 334 mm. (5 1/8 x 13 1/8 in.) [sheet]
137 x 343 mm. (5 3/8 x 13 1/2 in.) [with mount]
Little is known of the life and career of Robert Maximilian Veith, the younger son of the landscape painter Johann Philipp Veith (1768-1837). He studied in his native Dresden in the 1820’s and in later years settled in Vienna, where he worked as a lithographer.