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Franz Anton Maulbertsch Langenargen am Bodensee 1724 - 1796 Vienna
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description
- Franz Anton Maulbertsch
- Esther before Ahasuerus;David and Abigail
- a pair, both oil on canvas, in carved and silver-gilt frames
- each: 84.5 by 67 cm.; 33 1/4 by 26 3/8 in.
Provenance
Formerly Auspitz collection, Vienna.
Literature
F.M. Haberditzl, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Vienna 2006, pp. 324-5, reproduced figs 308, 309 (as location unknown).
Catalogue Note
Haberditzl, who published this pair of paintings as 'location unknown', considered them to be mature works by Maulbertsch, datable to the 1780s. He also noted the existence of an oil sketch by the artist for the scene of Esther before Ahasuereus; an 1808 inventory of the Hüsgen collection in Frankfurt cites, under no. 4, a painting of the same subject (“Esther vor Ahasverus, eine meisterhafte Skizze von Maulpertsche”) measuring 29.9 by 23.4 cm.