Mounted Hussars (recto); Charging Cavalrymen (verso)
Framed: 16 1/2 x 18 inches (41.91 x 45.72 cm)
Verso: A cavalry skirmish; to the right, a cavalryman about to transfix another with his sword.Provenance
With Kühl, Dresden;
Purchased from Kühl by an unknown private collector [1];
Purchased at the unknown collector’s sale, Gemälde, Plastik, Graphik, Handzeichnungen, Aquarelle, Kunstliteratur..., Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, November 8, 1951, lot 1055, as Reiterkampf, through Curt Valentin, by Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York, stock no. 8024, November 8, 1951-July 29, 1952 [2];
Purchased from Jacques Seligmann and Co. by David T. Beals II (1889-1963), Kansas City, MO, July 29, 1952-October 4, 1952;
His gift to his wife, Helen Ward Beals (1891-1983), Kansas City, MO, October 4, 1952-1983 [3];
By descent to her son, David T. Beals III (d. 1987), Mission Hills, KS, 1983-1987;
Inherited by his wife, Jeanne McCray Beals (1933-2005), Fairway, KS, 1987-2005;
Her bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2006.
NOTES:
[1] According to Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart Kunstkabinett, in a letter to Curt Valentin, December 8, 1951, Archives of American Art, Washington, DC, Jacques Seligmann Records, box 128, folder 11, copy in NAMA curatorial files.
[2] According to Germain Seligmann, in a letter to Roman Norbert Ketterer, December 12, 1951, Archives of American Art, Washington, DC, Jacques Seligmann and Co. Records, box 128, folder 11, copy in NAMA curatorial files.
[3] According to David T. Beals II, in a letter to Germain Seligmann, September 5, 1952, Beals planned to give the drawing to his wife on October 4, their wedding anniversary. Archives of American Art, Washington, DC, Jacques Seligmann Records, box 116, folder 3, copy in NAMA curatorial files.
