Master Paintings and Drawings Part II

Master Paintings and Drawings Part II

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 307. Half Length Portrait of a soldier, traditionally identified as Le Comte Francois Khevenhüller-Metsch.

Property From an Important California Collection, Sold Without Reserve

Josef Kriehuber

Half Length Portrait of a soldier, traditionally identified as Le Comte Francois Khevenhüller-Metsch

No reserve

Lot Closed

May 26, 03:47 PM GMT

Estimate

600 - 800 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property From an Important California Collection, Sold Without Reserve

Josef Kriehuber

Vienna 1800 - 1876

Half Length Portrait of a soldier, traditionally

identified as Le Comte Francois Khevenhüller-Metsch


Watercolor over pencil, heightened with gold and white;

signed and dated in pencil, lower right: Kriehuber. (1)837

and inscribed in brown ink with the identity of the sitter: Le Comte Francois de Khevenhüller Metsch.

and further dated in brown ink, lower left: Vienna le 24 fevrier 1837.

157 by 115 mm; 6¼ by 4½ in.

Hugo Marmorek (later Howard Madison), Vienna and Detroit,
Thence by descent