Lot 3055* - A182 Tableaux de Maîtres Anciens - vendredi, 22. septembre 2017, 15h00
MENGS, ANTON RAPHAEL
(Bohemia 1728 - 1779 Rome)
John the Baptist in a landscape. Circa 1755.
Oil on panel.
34.5 x 47 cm.
Expertise: Dr. Steffi Roettgen, Florence, 7.12.2011.
Provenance:
- Friedrich August III. (1696 – 1763), who probably commissioned the work.
- Collection of Alberico Archinto (1698 – 1758).
- Collection of Antonio Giorgio Clerici (1715 – 1768), Milan.
- Via inheritance to Claudia Clerici Biglia (d. 1822), listed until 1875 in the archives.
- Sotheby’s , London, 4.7.2013, Lot 220.
- European private collection.
Literature:
- Winckelmann, Johann Joachim: Briefe, W. Rehm und J. Diepolder (ed.), Berlin 1754, Vol. II.
- D’ Azara, Giuseppe Niccola: Opere di Antonio Raffaello Mengs primo pittore del re cattolico Carlo III, Rome 1787, p. XLIV.
Provenance:
- Friedrich August III. (1696 – 1763), who probably commissioned the work.
- Collection of Alberico Archinto (1698 – 1758).
- Collection of Antonio Giorgio Clerici (1715 – 1768), Milan.
- Via inheritance to Claudia Clerici Biglia (d. 1822), listed until 1875 in the archives.
- Sotheby’s , London, 4.7.2013, Lot 220.
- European private collection.
Literature:
- Winckelmann, Johann Joachim: Briefe, W. Rehm und J. Diepolder (ed.), Berlin 1754, Vol. II.
- D’ Azara, Giuseppe Niccola: Opere di Antonio Raffaello Mengs primo pittore del re cattolico Carlo III, Rome 1787, p. XLIV.
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