Focus on The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam 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