Spanish Colonial Art

Serra Ouro-Branco, province of Minas Geraës (after Rugendas)


  • Date: c. 1829
  • Watercolour on paper (in original Bidermeier frame)
  • 250 x 335 mm
  • Inscribed: “près du voyage de Rugendas en Brèsil” (lower left)”; “dessine par le Baron Guillaume Koenig” (lower right); “Serra Ouro-Branco/ dans la province de Minas Geraës” (lower centre)
  • Provenance: Schloßbibliothek Warthausen (stamp), artist’s family residence; Germany, private collection