Verso: Back of the work: 1) upper left, blue oil crayon: "4043" [= Context Schlüter]; 2) top centre, white sticker with black writing, damaged and upper part pasted over, on it [1st line:] "MOMPER", [2nd line:] "RENTOILEUR DES MUSÉES IMPÉRIAUX." [3rd line:] "11, Rue des Marais-St-Germain", [4th line:] "Ateliers, 13, Rue de la Sablière, 13th", [5th line:] "Paris"; 3) top right centre, white sticker with black writing, damaged, on it [1st line:] "Patel (Pierre-Antoine".1st line:] "Patel (Pierre-Antoine)". 1648 or 1654-1708", [2nd line:] "Paysage Classique", [3rd line:] "Grands arbres laissant par échappées apercevoir des Ruines antiques. Au", [4th line:] "centre vers la gauche un torrent. A l'avant-plan un satyre poursuit une nym-", [5th line:] "phe qui se débat.... Et fugit ad salices", [6th line:] "Toile, haut 60 cent, larg. 50 cent"; 4) in the middle on a wooden cross, red chalk: "15" [= possible reference to the plate number that the work was sold at the auction Artistic home furnishings of a well-known industrialist, auction house Edgar Joseph and Rudolf Preuss, 21-22 October 2008. Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1929]; 5) right, red colour/lacquer: "365" [= number of the work in the list Schlüter]; 6) left, blue oil pastel: "15" [= see 4)]; 7) central on wooden cross, impression of an embossing stamp, round: "Momper A Paris".
8) right next to 7), blue oil crayon: "96" [= ...] decorative frame: 1) top left, sticker, white with black writing, on it: 1. line (centre):] "Patel (P.)", [2. line (left-aligned):] "61st - Pan et Syrinx", [3. line (right-aligned):] "T. - H. 0m,50 c.; L. 0m,60c."; 2) with pencil and partly overlaid by 1): "P[? pasted over] Patel"; 3) top centre, illegible writing in black oil crayon and partly overlaid by 4); 4) remains of a sticker; 5) top centre, red oil crayon: "15" [= see 4)]; 6) top centre, blue oil crayon and partly overlaid by 5): "4043" [= see 1) on the back of the work]; 7) top centre, right, white sticker, rectangular, in black letters, on it: [1st line:] "ON HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE", [framed in two longitudinal lines: 2nd line:] "FASTEN Envelope by gumming this Label across Flap", [3rd line:] "OPEN by cutting Label instead of tearing Envelope", On the right side there is a black circle, below left, left-aligned: "Ppt. Ltd. Wt. 57691 4/45 (Lablest)"; 8) top right, red colour/lacquer: "365" [= see 5) on the back of the factory]; 9) top right, illegible lettering in blue oil chalk and overlaid by 8); 10) right, slightly reddish sticker, torn off on the right side: "verk["k" only half]; 11) central, right, black graphite o. pencil, superimposed by 12), we read at the moment as: "70"; 12) central, right, blue oil crayon: "A 2237-96"; 13) bottom right, sticker, white serrated, black line at upper margin, remains of a black line at left and right margin, in black: "96"; 14) bottom right, reddish sticker, serrated, handwritten, ink/ink: "2"
15) lower left, pencil curl, of importance?; 16) left, centre, blue oil pastel: "15" [= see 4)]; 17) left, centre, sticker, white in black box: [1st line (middle):] "Carl Hommel", [ 2nd line (middle):] "Kunsthandlung", [3rd line (right-aligned):] "Frankfurt a.M.", [4th line (middle below line 3):] "Kaiserstrasse 28", [5th line (left-aligned):] "No" as well as "handwritten annotation: "35", pencil added at the bottom right: „600“
