recto: scene from the summer night's dream (4th act, 1st scene); verso: pencil sketch of the summer night's dream.
Provenance
The sheet, together with three other drawings from the collection of Prince Johann Georg of Saxony, was purchased from C.G. Boerner in Leipzig in 1941. At the auction " Deutsche Handzeichnungen des XIX. Jahrhunderts aus verschiedenenem Besitz. Dabei eine Partie von Zeichnungen aus der nachgelassenen Sammlung des Prinzen Johann Georg Herzog zu Sachsen" the work of Carl Trost as Lot 550 from the possession B1 was bought by auction.
