Lot 196
  • 196

Johann Baptist Durach

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Johann Baptist Durach
  • Portrait of Franz Anton Freiherr von Hausen zu Gleichenstorff (d. 1780), seated, in Choir dress holding up a pectoral cross of precious stones
  • inscribed on reverse: Jo, Ba, Durach Pin., / Salz. / 1769 and charged upper right with the coat of arms of the Prince-Provost of the Hausen-Gleichenstorff family from Berchtesgaden
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Commisioned by the sitter, Franz Anton Freiherr von Hausen zu Gleichenstorff, who between 1768 and 1780 was 'Fürstpropst‘ in Schloss Lustheim (Land Berchtesgaden, Bavaria);
remained in Schloss Lustheim until its destruction in 1938;
acquired in 1938 by Heinrich von Hausen and then directly by descent.