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Spring Blessing: "Du Lässt den schönen Frühling Kommen . . ."

1790–1850
Medium/TechniqueWatercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite on paper
DimensionsSheet: 20.0 x 31.4 cm (7 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number50.3839
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsInscription in ink lower left: "Du Last den schönen Frühling / Kommen, du gibst der nackenden / Erd ihr kleit, du segnest vatter / Deine Frommen mit überflusz / Und Seligkeit. , . . . . ." You allow the beautiful Spring to come, you give the naked earth her clothes; you bless O Father, the pious with abundance and happiness.
ProvenanceColl.:Lorimer; Maxim Karolik: gift to MFA Dec, 14, 1950
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