Two angels
Round picture format (tondo): The angels are looking after a small stem in a large pot: one is watering it, the other is cutting off a bare branch;
Recto: signed and dated on the pot in black: "18EB [ligated] 68"; verso: top edge in pencil: "...", next to it in pencil: "E. Bendemann EB [ligated] gez"; top right corner in pencil, then erased: "N...ch / E12 [or ER]" [illegible]; centre stamp SGSM 17/ Lugt no. L 1094b with inventory number; lower right dry stamp round (DM approx. 20 mm), crown in the centre, inscription "[...] PAPER [...]";
Passepartout mask: embossed print in brown, "1934:60" under the cut-out on the right; centre: "EDUARD BENDEMANN"; below in the centre embossed stamp SGSM 19; at the bottom centre in pencil: "106" (portfolio number).
1868 - 1934 Whereabouts unknown, possibly in the artist's estate or in the possession of his descendants
without date - 1934 Dr. Hellmuth Wallach (1901 - 1989), Munich, transferred to the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung by H.W. Wallach, Munich as a membership fee for the Freunde der Graphischen Sammlung (Friends of the Graphische Sammlung)
since 1934 Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, acquired by Hellmuth W. Wallach, Munich, as a membership fee for the Freunde der Graphischen Sammlung.
Staatliche Museumsagentur Bayern
Referat für Provenienzforschung
Landshuter Allee 8
80637 München
Germany