Josephine sie ruhe in Frieden
Josephine sie ruhe in Frieden
Foto: Kunstpalast - LVR-ZMB - Joshua Esters

Josephine sie ruhe in Frieden, 1885

Josephine they Rest in Peace
ArtistCaspar Johann Nepomuk Scheuren, Aachen 1810–1887 Düsseldorf
Drucker*inFrz. Rangette & Söhne, ca. 1842 - 1902
Colour lithograph
Image dimensions12,8 × 17,8 cm
Sheet dimensions13,8 × 18,9 cm
Status
not on display
About the workAs an actress and singer, Josephine Doyen appeared in numerous plays in Düsseldorf in 1838 and 1839. She married Caspar Scheuren in 1839, ending her career as a performer. In the lunette on the right of this card thanking people for their condolences following her death in 1885, Saint Cecilia can be seen playing the organ. She is the patron saint of singers and an allusion to the profession of the deceased. This late work by Scheuren, who survived his wife by just two years, was created from a drawing by his final pupil, the Düsseldorf graphic artist Fritz Wilhelm Müller.
AccessionAcquisition 1919
Provenance[...]; 20.5.1919 angekauft von Fritz Bürmann
Inventory numberK 1919-148
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