Caspar David Friedrich (Greifswald 1774 – 1840 Dresden). ”Wolkenstudie in bergiger Landschaft”. Circa 1803 Pencil on wove paper. 13,1 × 20,5 cm (5 ⅛ × 8 ⅛ in.). Inscribed on the upper left within the image: blau [and twice] Berg. On the reverse lower left with the estate remark of Johan Christian Dahl: Friedrich f. Inscribed on the lower centre in pencil: 21 [crossed out and corrected to:] 37. Grummt 329.– On the reverse: Top of a hill with stones. Tiny pencil sketch. [3402] Provenance: Estate of the artist / Galerie Gurlitt, Berlin (at the latest 1940, presumably until 1958) / Martin Bodmer, Cologny (before 1971) / Martin Bodmer Foundation, Cologny (until 2002) / C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf (2006) / Artis Fine Art, London / Private Collection, Saxony (acquired 2014 at Artis Fine Art, London) Exhibition: Caspar David Friedrich. Gedächtnisausstellung zu seinem 100. Todestag. Berlin, Galerie Gurlitt, 1940 Literature and illustration: Emil Waldmann: Caspar David Friedrich Almanach. Berlin, Gurlitt Verlag, 1941, ill. p. 16 („Haus, Hügel, Wolken“) / Auction 82: Graphik, Handzeichnungen, Gem#lde, dekorative Graphik, Hamburgensien. Hamburg, Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, 7.6.1958, cat. no. 49 („Haus, Hügel und Wolken“, 11 x 17,5 cm) / Master Drawings from the Martin Bodmer Foundation. New York, Christie's, 23.1.2002, cat. no. 161, ill. / Helmut Börsch-Supan and Karl Wilhelm Jähnig: Caspar David Friedrich. Gemälde, Druckgraphik and bildmäßige Zeichnungen. Munich, Prestel-Verlag, 1973, p. 199 (mentioning of the auction at Hauswedell 1958)