Portrait Herzog August von Leuchtenberg
Recto: Signature in stone below the image on the right: "Hanfstaengl del. 1829"; upper right corner of the sheet formerly probably a 5-digit number, erased, still discernible at the end: "...9"
Verso: upper left corner in pencil: "90"; upper right in pencil: "2.-"; centre stamp SGSM 18 / Lugt 1094c in brown, inside in pencil: "1937" and “23” [inventory number SGSM]; bottom edge in pencil: "Herzog Aug. v. Leuchtenberg"; below, overlapping the edge of the sheet (cut off) in pencil: "9...1" (901 or 941?); bottom right in pencil: cut off, illegible.
Underlay cardboard: left below the sheet in pencil: "Maill. –"; embossed print in brown, right below the sheet: "1937:23 (gift)", line below in the centre: "FRANZ HANFSTAENGL"; below that, stamp SGSM 19; at the bottom edge in the centre in pencil: "319 I" [folder number]; at the bottom edge on the right in pencil: "- Unknown portrait – "
Previous owner unknown
undated – 1937 Hugo Helbing (23 April 1863 – 30 November 1938)
since 1937 Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, acquired as a ‘donation’ from Hugo Helbing, Munich
Staatliche Museumsagentur Bayern
Referat für Provenienzforschung
Landshuter Allee 8
80637 München
Germany