Ansicht des Heidelberger Schlosses. Um 1830.
Oil on canvas.
78.5 x 105 cm (30.9 x 41.3 in).

We are grateful to Dr. Matthias Lehmann, Konz, who supplied the relevant hint regarding a new attribution to Christian Philipp Koester. We are also grateful to the authors of the Koester catalog raisonné Dr. Thomas Rudi, Leipzig, and Dr. Marianne Heinz, Kassel, for their kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Each with old attribution to Johann Martin von Rohden (1778-1868):
Antiquarian Dr. Helmut Tenner, Heidelberg, auction on 23 April 1966, lot 3953.
Collection Cäsar and Ruth Pinnau, Hamburg.
Christie's, Amsterdam, 15 December 2010, lot 663.

LITERATURE: Cf. for similar views of the Heidelberg Castle: Koesteriana. Catalog of the Kurpfälzisches Museums Heidelberg, published by Klaus Mugdan, Heidelberg 1968, cat. no. 9, 22 and 27 (pp. 31, 33 and 34).
Cf. Thomas Rudi, Christian Philipp Koester (1784-1851), Maler und Restaurator. Monographie mit kritischem Œuvreverzeichnis, Frankfurt am Main et al 1999 (Europäische Hochschulschriften 28.1973).