A) Rock Crab
Pencil, 82 x 101 mm.
Condition: glue residue on verso

B) Crab’s Claws
Pencil, 98 x 113 mm.
Condition: crease running parallel to the upper edge
Verso: glue residue


Origin of both sketches: Gerd Rosen, Berlin, auction XXXIV am 16th May 1960, lot 863; R.A. Winkler estate.

Overbeck founded the Brotherhood of St. Luke with Franz Pforr in 1810, the first documented Secessionist movement in the history of art. He moved to Rome the same year, where he became the chief representative of the Nazarene art movement. Overbeck’s studio became one of Rome’s artistic hubs.