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Peasant with Fur Coat Beside Fire
Joseph Heicke (Austrian, 1811 - 1861)ca. 1850
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Heicke was an animal and landscape painter and lithographer, born in Vienna in 1811. He studied at the art academy in that city from 1824 to 1831. After 1842 he undertook numerous sketching tours, traveling to Italy, Hungary and the Middle East. This watercolor is likely based on a scene he witnessed on one of these journeys. The man holds an Afghan coat, which might suggest an eastern location.
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- Title: Peasant with Fur Coat Beside Fire
- Creator: Joseph Heicke (Austrian, 1811 - 1861)
- Date Created: ca. 1850
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Roles: Artist: Joseph Heicke (Austrian, 1811 - 1861)
- Provenance: William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Object Type: watercolors
- Medium: watercolor on paper
- Inscriptions: [Signature] Lower right: J Heicke
- Dimensions: H: 10 1/16 x W: 7 13/16 in. (25.5 x 19.8 cm)
- Credit Line: Acquired by William T. Walters
- Classification: Painting & Drawing
- Accession Number: 37.1267
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