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Workshop of Anton Raphael Mengs
Perseus and Andromeda
Lot Closed
February 2, 02:58 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Workshop of Anton Raphael Mengs
Ústi nad Labem, Bohemia (Czech Republic) 1728 - 1779 Rome
Perseus and Andromeda
oil on canvas
unframed: 52.8 x 48.5 cm.; 28 1/2 x 19 in.
framed: 91.2 x 66.9 cm.; 36 x 26 1/4 in.
Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 11 November 1980, lot 346 (as Mengs);
Sale, Milan, Finarte, 1985 (according to Roettgen, see Literature);
Anonymous sale ('Property from a Private European Collection'), London, Sotheby's, 4 December 2014, lot 227 (as Workshop of Mengs);
Acquired by the present owner from a private dealer, Genoa.
Sale, Milan, Finarte, 1985 (according to Roettgen, see Literature);
Anonymous sale ('Property from a Private European Collection'), London, Sotheby's, 4 December 2014, lot 227 (as Workshop of Mengs);
Acquired by the present owner from a private dealer, Genoa.
S. Roettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs 1728-1779, Munich 1999, vol. I, p. 172, cat. no. WK2 (under repetitions and copies).
A reduced workshop replica of the painting by Mengs of 1777 in The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg (inv. no. ГЭ-1328, oil on canvas, 227 x 153.5 cm.).1
1 https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.+paintings/38285