* Schmidt In the Studio {1884} Loc? [PA]

Schmidt, A.van (1827-80; German)
In the Studio
Panel, c.28 x 25 cm
Purchased 1884
Unidentified; present location unknown

In the 1943 NGV catalogue, this picture is listed as by the artist noted above, a genre painter who worked in Dresden, Berlin and Munich.

However, in the absence of a photograph and/or further information, the work cannot be identified.

Refs.

AR 1884, p.35; NGV 1894, p.81 (IV.McArthur Gallery, no.33; as measuring 11 x 10 inches); not listed in NGV 1905 [£150] 

Cf. NGV 1943, cat.559. For Schmidt, see Bénézit 12, p.670, and Thieme-Becker 30 (1936), p.132