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Anton Graff

Winterthur 1736 – 1813 Dresden

Portrait of the writer Gustav Adolph von Amman (1743–1772). 1762

Oil on canvas. 101,5 x 80 cm (40 x 31 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Anton Graff. Portrait of the writer Gustav Adolph von Amman (1743–1772). 1762.

Estimate:

EUR 20,000

 

- 30,000

USD 22,300

 

- 33,500

Sold for:

40,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

The Rohde-Hinze Collection 1 – Old Masters, Friday, 03.07.2015

Information

Oil on canvas. 101,5 x 80 cm (40 x 31 ½ in.). Signed and dated on the reverse lower right: AGraff Pinx 1762. Catalogue raisonné: Catalogue raisonné Berckenhagen 1967, no. 1545. Relined with the exception of the signature. Framed

In a plaster copy of a Dresden gallery frame of 1765, with the monogram of King August III of Poland (119,5 x 97,3 cm)..

Collection of the copperplate engraver Johann Friedrich Bause (1738–1814), Leipzig (gift of the artist) / Bause family collection, Leipzig / 1900 collection Lord Mayor Carl Bruno Tröndlin (1835–1908), Leipzig / collection of the merchant family Koch, Leipzig / 1936 collection Frieda Hinze, Berlin / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin.

Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: inventory list of pictures (1950), no. 188, previous owner Koch family, 700 RM / typed document regarding provenance, circa 1950 / letter from Dr. von Knorre, Kunstsammlungen Augsburg, to Frieda Hinze, 7 June 1971

Berliner Sammler-Tradition, exh. cat., published by the Bezirksamt Tiergarten, Berlin 1950 (Haus am Lützowplatz), no. 167.

Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff. Leben und Werk, Berlin 1967, no. 1545, p. 389, ill. p. 389

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