CARL SPITZWEG 1808 Munich - 1885 Ibid. Landscape in Upper Bavaria Oil on wooden panel. 12.5 x 33 cm (F. 39 x 51 cm). Verso: on panel Spitzweg estate stampt with rhombus. Min. abraded, rest., panel verso with one tension crack running horizontally. Frame. Excerpt from the handwritten report by Dr. Hermann Uhde-Bernay (translated from German): 'An oil painting on wooden panel that was submitted to me today in the original, landscape format 33:12 ½ cm, in excellent condition, showing an Upper Bavarian landscape with wide view over a plain divided by a river (...) is, due to precise examination and comparison with similar works by the master, a beautiful characteristic work by the Munich painter Carl Spitzweg' Begutachtung vorgelegte Ölgemälde auf Holz, Querformat 12,5 x 33cm (...) stellt eine Excerpt from the handwritten report by Eduard Loreck (translated from German): 'The oil painting on wooden panel, landscape format 12,5 x 33 cm, presented to me for evaluation (...) shows an Upper Bavarian landscape with wide view over a river plain in the left backround. In the foreground a valley wall with groups of trees and bushes, over which a small country road is leading upwards from the valley bottom. On the road coming up a mail coach (...). The appealing painting derives undoubtedly, as I can determine by comparing it with the master`s paintings in my possession, from the hand of my great uncle Carl Spitzweg. This I confirm in consideration of our family estate stamp'. Both specialists were mentioned by Siegfried Wichmann in the artist`s oeuvre catalogue as serious and reliable experts on the work of Spitzweg. Expertise: Eduard Loreck, Munich, 23. Mai 1955; Dr. Hermann Uhde-Bernay, Starnberg, 8. Mai 1955 (each available as copy). Provenance: private collection Northern Germany.