Property from a Private New York Collection
Hans Makart
Leda and the Swan
Auction Closed
February 2, 09:59 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Hans Makart
Austrian 1840 - 1884
Leda and the Swan (Leda und der Schwan)
oil on canvas
canvas: 29 ½ by 60 in.; 75 by 152.5 cm
framed: 38 ¾ by 68 ½ in.; 98 by 174 cm
Baron Eder, Vienna
Sale: Georg Plach, Vienna, 11 & 12 April 1871, lot 88
possibly Moritz Graf Eszterhazy
possibly Josef Kranz, Vienna
Sale: G. Pisko, Vienna, 23 April 1902, lot 143 (illustrated in the catalogue)
Marie Luise Hofteufel (nee Wollner, 17.9.1880 - 15.5.1944, was a Hofburg actress of Jewish descent resident in Germany and Vienna. In 1929 she dissolved her household in Vienna and voluntarily auctioned her furniture and art objects)
Her sale: Dorotheum, Vienna, 19 November 1929, lot 28, pl. 5, illustrated
Sale: Dorotheum, Vienna, 401. Kunstauktion, 17-19 February 1930, lot 69, pl. 6, illustrated
1978, art trade Paris
1995, art trade Paris
Rita Bucheit Ltd, Chicago
Vienna, Österreichischer Kunstverein, 1885, no. 8
possibly H. O. Miethke, in Allgemeine Kunst Chronik, vol. IX, Vienna, 1885, Die XV Jahres Ausstellung, 'Makart's Nachlass', p. 3, mentioned
possibly Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des Neunzehnten
Jahrhunderts, vol. I, p. 919, no. 9, as 'Leda' (1865)
Gerbert Frodl, Hans Makart Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, Salzburg,
1974, no. 89, p. 299 (catalogued and illustrated)
Gerbert Frodl, Hans Makart Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Vienna, 2013,no. 113, p. 88, catalogued and illustrated
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