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A Ferry on the Königsee

Friedrich Gauermann · 1827/1839

Friedrich Gauermann: German, 1807 - 1862

UnclassifiedAustriaGermany

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  • Jakob Gauermanneditorial inference
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A Ferry on the Königsee

1827/1839

pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white chalk, over graphite on wove paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white chalk, over graphite on wove paper
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sheet: 21.9 x 28.9 cm (8 5/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
Collection no.
2007.111.92
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Friedrich Gauermann. A Ferry on the Königsee. Friedrich Gauermann; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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A Ferry on the Königsee — Friedrich Gauermann. 1827/1839.

Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white chalk, over graphite on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 21.9 x 28.9 cm (8 5/8 x 11 3/8 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2007.111.92. Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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Friedrich Gauermann. A Ferry on the Königsee. Friedrich Gauermann; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.