Lot 414: Blades with Chafers and a Butterfly

Preyer Emilie, Düsseldorf 1849 - Düsseldorf 1930, Blades with Chafers and a Butterfly, Watercolour, 28 x 21 cm, lo. le. monogr. a. dat. E. Pr. 23/11. 1888, matted a. framed under glass. - German still life paintress from a family of artists. She was pupil of her father, the still life painter. Johann Wilhelm P. After her death a great Preyer exhibition was held in Düsseldorf, featuring still lifes of Emilie a. her father as well as paintings of her uncle Gustav a. her brother Paul. - Mus.: New York (Metrop. Mus.), Karlsruhe, Philadelphia u.a. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.