Untitled ("Side Lights on the German Soldier," initial-piece of soldier)
Alternate Title: A German Officer; Portrait of an Officer
Date: ca. 1892
Medium: ink wash on sketchboard
Catalogue Number: 01602
Credit Line: '21' Club, New York, New York
Dimensions: 18 x 9-1/2" (45.7 x 24.1 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Monthly (July 1893), p. 213, halftone.
Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington./Berlin.--; reverse: Sidelights - by Big[elow]/on the German Soldier.
Illustration Inscription: lr: Frederic Remington./Berlin.--
Provenance: Victor D. Spark, New York, New York; (Chapellier Galleries, Inc., New York, New York); Private Collector, 1967; (Parke-Bernet, New York, New York, April 15, 1970); [?]; (Hirschl & Adler, New York, New York); [?]; present owner
Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Card, Helen L. "Frederic Remington, 1861-1909: Artist Historian of the Old West." Scrapbooks of Remington illustrations, compiled c. 1944. Vol. 1-5. The Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, New York.
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Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. American Paintings, Drawings,
Watercolors. New York, sale 3025 (April 15 1970).
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Bigelow, Poultney. The Borderland of the Czar and Kaiser. New
York: Harper and Brothers, copyright 1894, published 1895.
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Remington ledger book of paintings, c. 1887-1892. No. 71.839. Frederic
Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
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National Museum of American Art. Inventory of American
Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. On-line
computer database in progress; BBHC copy for Remington's paintings
dates October 10, 1984.
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The information presented here is based on the Catalogue Raisonné edited by Peter Hassrick in 2016 and was accurate to the best of our knowledge at that time.