Get a Carus Certificate of Authenticity for your painting (COA) for your Carus drawing.

For all your Carus artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

Getting a Carus Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Carus painting or drawing.

If you want to sell your Carus painting or drawing use our selling services. We offer Carus selling help, selling advice, private treaty sales and full brokerage.

We have been authenticating Carus and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Carus experts and Carus certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Carus artworks.

Our Carus paintings and drawings authentications are accepted and respected worldwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Carus certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Carus painting or drawing anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Carus paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Carus collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Carl Gustav Carus art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Carl Gustav Carus or we will sell it for you.

Carl Gustav Carus was a German physiologist and painter, born at Leipzig. A friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he was a many-sided man: a doctor, a naturalist, a scientist and a psychologist and an advocate of the theory that health of body and mind depends on the equipoise of antagonistic principles. A landscape painter, he had drawing lessons from Julius Diez and subsequently studied under Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld at the Oeser drawing academy. From 1814 to 1817 he taught himself oil painting working under Casper David Friedrich, a Dresden landscape painter.

In 1811 he graduated as a doctor of medicine and a doctor of philosophy. In 1814 he was appointed professor of obstetrics and director of the maternity clinic at the teaching institution for medicine and surgery in Dresden. He wrote on art theory. He is best known to scientists for originating the concept of the vertebrate archetype, a seminal idea in the development of Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Still wondering about a 19th century German painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by Carl Gustav Carus.