Charles Alfred Meurer Pastoral Landscape Oil Painting of Sheep in Field

Art Oil Paintings Paintings and Drawings

Item Details

Charles Alfred Meurer (Ohio/Germany, 1865 – 1955)
Untitled (pastoral scene)
Oil painting on canvas
Unsigned
Charles A. Meurer estate stamp to verso

Charles Meurer was born in Germany to American parents and raised in Tennessee. He eventually settled in Terrace Park, Ohio, where he maintained a studio until his death in 1955. He was proclaimed “the last living member of the great school of American trompe l’oeil.” He had studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati under Frank Duveneck, as well as in France at the Academy Julian and École des Beaux-Arts. However, it was seeing the work of Michael Harnett at the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition of 1886 that inspired his exploration of trompe l’oeil. His work My Passport, painted the year of Harnett’s death, won honorable mention at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and established his national reputation.

Condition

- areas of discoloration; craquelure throughout; billowing to canvas; slight buckling to canvas; stretcher abrasions; gilt loss and abrasions to frame.