Charles Alfred Meurer Oil Painting of Walled Garden

Item Details

Charles Alfred Meurer (Ohio/Germany; 1865 – 1955)
Untitled
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to lower right

Charles Meurer was born in Germany to American parents, and was 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 Cincinnati Art Academy under Frank Duveneck, as well as in France at the Academy Julian and Ecole 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

- stretcher marks and light creasing across canvas. Appears to have been revarnished. Areas of craquelure. Cracks, chips and accretion to frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame. Visible image measures 19.5" W x 15.5" H.

Item #

18CIN515-096