Der Königssohn führt Aschenputtel zum Tanz. Ca. 1862.
Pencil drawing.
Cf. Hoff/Budde 2798. On wove paper, laminated on second sheet. 11 x 7.8 cm (4.3 x 3 in), almost the full sheet.
The drawing served as model for the woodcut illustration of the same name released in: Es war einmal. Ein Bilderbuch von Dresdner Künstlern, Dresden 1862, published by J. Heinrich Richter. Printed by E. Blochmann and son, with together 51 woodcuts in the text. [CB].

PROVENANCE: Collection Wulf D. and Akka von Lucius, Stuttgart.
Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from aforementioned in 1985).

EXHIBITION: Zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Bilder, Graphik, Bücher, Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover, cat. 28 (1985), cat. no. 90 (with black and white illu. on p. 59).

LITERATURE: Cf. Das Ludwig Richter Album, Sämtliche Holzschnitte. Herrsching (no date), vol. 2, p. 1596 (for the woodcut).