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Silhouette: lady with flower basket, gentleman with snuff box
Lost Art-ID
620681
Artist / Creator
Title
Silhouette: lady with flower basket, gentleman with snuff box
Dating
1770/80
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Ink ; Paper
Measures
mit Rahmen: 23,0 cm x 26,7 cm x 3,2 cm
Inventory number
K 1936/214,2
Description
On the left, a lady in side view to the right, sitting at a table on a rococo chair, opposite her, a gentleman standing behind a chair set aside. The lady with high hairstyle, dressed with a waisted robe with indicated ruffles around the neckline and wide skirt, the legs are flipped. In her hands she holds flowers, in front of her, on the rectangular table top resting on four curly legs, stands a basket of flowers. The gentleman wears a tricorn with a bag and a knee-length skirt; in one hand he holds a snuff box, the contents of which he grabs with the other.
Profiled, gilded wooden frame with glazing (19th century).
Provenance
Purchase on 02/04 March 1937 (Munich Kunstversteigerungshaus Adolf Weinmüller [Hg. ], Catalogue / Kunstversteigerungshaus Adolf Weinmüller, Munich: Zinn eines süddeutschen Museums, Antiquitäten, Plastik, Möbel, Gemälde alter und neuer Meister aus verschiedenem Besitz, München 1937, Lot 516, Katalog 7). According to the Central Institute of Art History in Munich, "W.i.M" stands for Weiß in Munich. According to the Bavarian Economic Archives (sign K1/X 78a), the name is correctly Hans Weisz, owner of the antiquarian bookshop in Munich, Briennerstr. 8)
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Contact
Museen der Stadt Regensburg
Dachauplatz 2-4
93047 Regensburg
Germany
Phone
0941/507-4440
Fax
0941/507-4449
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