Carlos(Karl) Nebel (German, 1805-1855)Mexico visto desde el Arsobisbado de Tacubaya 48.2 x 66 cm. (19 x 26 in.) unframed
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Find your local specialistCarlos (Karl) Nebel (German, 1805-1855)
bears collectors stamp verso 'Arnold Blome, Bremen'
oil on canvas
48.2 x 66 cm. (19 x 26 in.)
unframed
Footnotes
PROVENANCE:
The collection of Arnold Blome, Bremen.
Attracted by Baron von Humboldt’s visit and subsequent publications on South America, many artists started to arrive in Mexico, among them a young German called Carlos Nebel.
Nebel visited Mexico from 1829 to 1834, and having completed his journey through the Northern, Coastal and Bajío regions of Mexico, as well as visiting Mexico City and Puebla, he returned to Paris. He then asked Humboldt if he would write the prologue to his publication, the Baron complied and wrote of the naturalist feeling, the aesthetic nature and the archeological interest of the work, he also praised the extreme dedication of the German explorer.
Nebel’s main objective in his work was to inform the public of the different natural and artistic aspects of Mexico, which he called "Atica Americana" and his Romanticist style comes to the fore in his images of Mexican daily life. Here the people are not real; rather, they are the classical types seen in ancient European art. However, these images are very useful for knowing and understanding different aspects of daily life in Mexico during the first decades of the 19th century
The present view of Mexico City is taken from the Archbishop's Palace at Tacubaya which is located about seven kilometres from the city.
The current work formed the basis for the lithograph of the same title published in K. Nebel,'Voyage Pittoresque et Archeologique dans le Mexique', Lemercier & Miahle, Paris, 1836.