Lot 102
  • 102

Emil Jacob Schindler

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Emil Jacob Schindler
  • Embrace in the forest
  • Signed lower left Schindler
  • Oil on canvas
  • 98 x 74cm ; 38 ½ by 29 in.
huile sur toile

Provenance

Sale, H.O. Miethke, Vienna, 21-23 February 1876, lot 115 ;
Ferdinand Franz Pierer, Vienna ;
Ferdinand Pierer, Vienna (by descent, son of the above) ;
Sale, Hassfurther, Vienna, 30 May 2008, lot 59 ;
Purchased from the above by Antal Post de Bekessy ;
Thence by descent

Exhibited

Vienna, Künstlerhaus, October 1869

Literature

Constantin von Wurzbach, 'Schindler, Emil', in Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Österreich, Vienne, 1875, p. 8, mentionned ;
Hartwig Fischel, 'Jacob Emil Schindler', in Die Graphischen Künste, 1893, p. 46 ;
Hartwig Fischel, 'Emil Jakob Schindler', in Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, 1897-98, p. 102 ;
Heinrich Fuchs, Emil Jacob Schindler, Zeugnisse eines ungewöhnlichen Künstlerlebens, Werkkatalog, Vienne, 1970, illustrated p. 148, n°38 ; p. 55, pl. 17, illustrated

Condition

Under UV light, - small scattered retouches : in the greenery and in the background - there are probably old repaints which are barely visible due to thick varnish
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