Focus on this artwork and explain the Ownership history.
Frederick William most likely gifted the Chicago painting to his daughter, Alexandra Feodorovna, the wife of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia. The painting remained in the Russian imperial collection until c. 1917. It then became part of a Swiss collection c. 1920. Before the Art Institute of Chicago purchased it in 1996, the painting had been owned by an art dealer and a private collector.The Alte Nationalgalerie purchased one of Blechen's color studies for the painting, The Palm House on the Pfaueninsel, in an auction in 1898.
Nicholas I of Russia Art Institute of Chicago Alexandra Feodorovna Pfaueninsel Alte Nationalgalerie