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Spring Blessing: "Du Lässt den schönen Frühling Kommen . . ."
1790–1850
Medium/Technique
Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 20.0 x 31.4 cm (7 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number50.3839
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1311, color plate XXIII (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- fraktur. Man and woman in late 18th century costume facing each other on either side of ornamental plant in pot.
InscriptionsInscription in ink lower left: "Du Last den schönen Frühling / Kommen, du gibst der nackenden / Erd ihr kleit, du segnest vatter / Deine Frommen mit überflusz / Und Seligkeit. , . . . . ."
You allow the beautiful Spring to come, you give the naked earth her clothes; you bless O Father, the pious with abundance and happiness.
You allow the beautiful Spring to come, you give the naked earth her clothes; you bless O Father, the pious with abundance and happiness.
ProvenanceColl.:Lorimer; Maxim Karolik: gift to MFA Dec, 14, 1950