Spanish Colonial Art
Virgin Forest at Manqueritipa, province of Rio de Janeiro (after Rugendas)
Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr von König-Warthausen
(Stuttgart, Germany, 1793-1879)
- Date: July 1829
- Watercolour on paper (in original Bidermeier frame)
- 250 x 335 mm
- Signed: and dated
- Inscribed: “dessine par le Baron Guillaume Koenig” (lower right); “Forêt vierge près Manqueritipa/ dans la province de Rio de Janeiro” (lower centre)
- Provenance: Schloßbibliothek Warthausen (stamp), artist’s family residence; Germany, private collection