(Hamburg 1823–1880) The Nurturing of Jupiter on Mount Ida in Crete, 1846, oil on canvas, 97 x 144 cm, framed, (W)

Provenance:
Purchased by Johann Heinrich Richartz directly from the artist;
his nephew Prof. Johannes Matthias Firmenich;
1861 presented to the Wallraff-Richartz Museum; Lempertz 500A, Gemälde Neuer Meister, 29 November-3 December 1968, lot 692;
German (?) private collection;
Italian private collection.

Literature:
Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts, Vol. II, 2, p. 814, no. 2.
Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1818–1819, Bruckmann, Munich 1998, Vol. 3, p. 321

Hermann Steinfurth
His works can be attributed to the Düsseldorf School. He received his first training in Düsseldorf with the portrait painter C.F. Sohn and with W. Schadow, amongst others. Numerous study trips through Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium followed. His teachers were convinced of the young Steinfurth’s talent from the start, and one can read in the list of pupils at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1844/45 that Steinfurth has painted the large work “The Nurturing of Jupiter by the Bacchantes´ and is one of the few for which we have great hopes of significant success”. He celebrated his glittering debut with this painting in Hamburg in 1846. (Quote from the Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule, Bruckmann, Munich 1998, Vol. 3, p. 321)