The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of September 21, 2023

Mushrooms

1751

Georg Wilhelm Baurenfeind

(German, c. 1710–1763)

Germany

Brush and brown wash and gouache

Support: Beige(2) laid paper, discolored to beige-yellow

Sheet: 11.9 x 20.3 cm (4 11/16 x 8 in.)

Bequest of Walter Blodgett 1975.257

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO, signed, across bottom, in brown ink: G.W. Baurenfeind ad vivum pinxit 14. Maij 1751 / [illegible] Zeichnüng [illegible]Unterschrift ; lower right, in graphite: [-Re-?]

Exhibition history

German Drawings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 1-July 13, 1980).

The Perennial Garden: 18th and 19th Century Botanical Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 3-July 31, 1983).

The Flowering of the Botanical Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1975.257