Lesser Ury (Birnbaum/Poznań 1861 – 1931 Berlin). ”Bei der Heuernte”. 1880 Oil on panel (cover of a cigar box). 13,5 × 30,1 cm (5 ⅜ × 11 ⅞ in.). Signed and dated lower left: L. Ury. 1880. accompanied by a certificate by Dr. Sibylle Groß, Berlin, dated 16 October 2023. The painting will be included in the catalogue raisonné of paintings, pastels, gouaches and watercolours by Lesser Ury by Dr. Sibylle Groß, Berlin.– [3012] Provenance: Private Collection (until 1969) / Private Collection (acquired 1969 at Lempertz, Cologne) / Private Collection, Lower Saxony (acquired 1978 at Schiele, Stuttgart, thence by descent to the present owner) Exhibition: Lesser Ury. Bilder der Bibel – Der Malerradierer. Berlin, Stiftung „Neue Synagoge Berlin – Centrum Judaicum“ und Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum, 2002, p.119 (erroneously dated “1882“, with slightly differing measurements) Literature and illustration: Auction 508: Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts. Cologne, Kunsthaus Math. Lempertz, 4./5.12.1969, cat.no. 5110, ill. pl. 24 / Auction 57. Stuttgart, Gus Schiele, 12.4.1978, cat. no. 298 (erroneously dated „1882“) According to Dr. Sibylle Groß, Berlin, the work is Lesser Ury's so far earliest known painting.