Torquato Tasso and the Two Leonoras, 1839

ArtistCarl Ferdinand Sohn, Berlin 1805–1867 Köln

Oil on canvas

Dimensions without frame175,8 × 255,5 cm

Dimensions with frame209 × 290 × 11,3 cm

Status

not on display

About the workTwo aristocratic ladies observe a 16th-century poet, Torquato Tasso, lost in thought. Düsseldorf painter Carl Ferdinand Sohn referenced Johann Wolfgang Goethe's play "Torquato Tasso" without depicting a specific scene. Instead he focussed on a mood: the calm creativity of Tasso, shown as an introverted genius, as well as the curiosity and mutual bond between the two women. Sohn had previously painted only these women, without Tasso, and sold the pictures immediately. With this motif, he took up the theme in a somewhat broader sense.

AccessionAcquisition 1839

Provenance1839 erworben durch den Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen und der Kunstakademie für den Galeriesaal der Kunstakademie; vor 1857 übernommen in die Städtische Gemäldesammlung

Inventory numberM 4079

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

Permalink

https://sammlung.kunstpalast.de/en/objects/141937/tasso-und-die-beiden-leonoren

Expand