Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper

Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 253. JEAN-JACQUES KARPFF, CALLED CASIMIR | PORTRAIT OF JEAN-PHILIPPE BRONNER, IN PROFILE, CIRCA 1810.

Property from the collection of the late Dr Erika Polh-Ströher (1919-2016)

JEAN-JACQUES KARPFF, CALLED CASIMIR | PORTRAIT OF JEAN-PHILIPPE BRONNER, IN PROFILE, CIRCA 1810

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July 29, 02:35 PM GMT

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Property from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)

JEAN-JACQUES KARPFF, CALLED CASIMIR

Colmar 1770 - 1829 Paris

PORTRAIT OF JEAN-PHILIPPE BRONNER, IN PROFILE, CIRCA 1810


Black and white chalk, in an inscribed circle, gilt and black wood frame;

signed lower right: Casimir

framed: 218 by 218 mm

unframed: 118 mm Diam.


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With Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London;

sale, London, Christie's, 5 December 2007, lot 378;

where acquired by Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)

London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Nineteenth and early twentieth century drawings and oil sketches, 1998, no. 4

An old label, written in an unknown hand, is attached to the reverse of the frame. It gives some clue as to the identity of the sitter and reads: Mr. Bronner depin[?] de Casimir Karpff de / Colmar.- / Mr. Bronner ainsi que Casimer Karpfetainent les amis d'efance de mon père. / Hanover le 21 [?] Mars 1869[?]. For a portrait of the same sitter on ivory please see lot 252.


For further information about Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher please see lot 244.