Outdoor Dance in a Village, Johann Conrad Seekatz
Johann Conrad Seekatz
Outdoor Dance in a Village
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Outdoor Dance in a Village, ca. 1764


Dimensions
28.5 x 43.3 cm
Physical Description
Oil on canvas, cut and lined, edges taped on all sides
Inventory Number
1679
Acquisition
Acquired in 1922 as a gift by Fanny Herxheimer.
Status
Not on display

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About the Acquisition

Family Löwenstein left for America, to then return to Frankfurt in 1870 as the millionaires Livingstone. Their daughter Rose Livingston (1860–1914), who remained unmarried throughout her life, established the Rose Livingston Foundation in 1913 with a donation of several million, for an old people’s home for educated ladies of different classes. Like her sister Fanny, she bequeathed parts of her art collection to the Städel. Among them were several landscape paintings by one of her friends: the Frankfurt painter Wilhelm Steinhausen.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title
Outdoor Dance in a Village
Painter
Period Produced
School
Object Type
Physical Description
Oil on canvas, cut and lined, edges taped on all sides
Material
Technique
Label at the Time of Manufacture
Unbezeichnet

Property and Acquisition

Institution
Departement
Collection
Creditline
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Picture Copyright
Public Domain
Acquisition
Acquired in 1922 as a gift by Fanny Herxheimer.

Work Content

Motifs and References

Iconclass

Primary
  • 43C942 folk dancing (men and women together)
  • 43C92 one pair dancing; man and woman dancing as a couple
  • 31A25432 leading someone by the hand or wrist
  • 48C75 making music; musician with instrument
  • 25I241 village street
  • 25I2 village
  • 25I244 village square, place
Secondary
Associative
  • 43A1311 dancing around the maypole

Research and Discussion

Provenance

Object History
...
Fanny Herxheimer, geb. Livingston (1853-1922), Frankfurt am Main
Vermächtnis an das Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 1922.

Information

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Last update

13.03.2024