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Johann Heinrich Lips

Kloten 1758 – 1817 Zurich

Portrait Johann Caspar Lavater. Circa 1786

Pen and brush and India ink in black, grey and brown, washed and painted in watercolours, the oval margin painted in green watercolours, on laid paper, laid down on laid paper. 45,7 × 38,2 cm (18 × 15 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Johann Heinrich Lips. Portrait Johann Caspar Lavater. Circa 1786.

Estimate:

EUR 4,000

 

- 6,000

USD 4,550

 

- 6,820

Sold for:

11,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions October 2018

Bernd Schultz Collection I, Thursday, 25.10.2018

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Pen and brush and India ink in black, grey and brown, washed and painted in watercolours, the oval margin painted in green watercolours, on laid paper, laid down on laid paper. 45,7 × 38,2 cm (18 × 15 in.). Dated in the oval margin below the subject: 6. Jenner [January] 1788. Accompanied by a card with a poem by Lavater written in pen and brown India ink, transcribed by the artist in 1797. The oval of Lavater cut out and laid down on laid paper (55,4 x 44,8 cm). The poem by Lavater written on laid paper, with etched margin.

Private Collection, Switzerland (until 2009) / Emanuel von Baeyer, London (2010)

Kernstück 1 OMD AUK

Auction A 150: Koller Auktionen, Zurich, 19 September 2009, cat. no. 3512 (there „Anonym“) / Emanuel von Baeyer: Paintings, Gouaches, Watercolours, Drawings. Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century. London, 2009, unpaginated