Lot 116: * Ellenrieder (Marie, 1791-1863). Two Angels on a

* Ellenrieder (Marie, 1791-1863). Two Angels on a floating cloud, one playing the tambourine, the other playing cymbals, 1860, fine pencil drawing on wove paper, heightened with gold ink, signed and dated lower right, minor foxing and light mount stains to outer corners, sheet size 153 x 202mm (6 x 8ins). Marie (or Maria) Ellenrieder was born in Konstanz, on the German/Swiss border and following study with the miniature painter Joseph Einsle, became the first woman to be admitted to the Munich Academy of Fine Art. Between 1822 and 1824 she was in Rome, where she was greatly influenced by the German Nazarenes, particularly Friedrich Johann Overbeck. (1)
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