Auction House

Auction: Old Master Paintings

26. November 2015, 6:00 pm

Object overview
Object

1377

Angelika Kauffmann

(Chur 1741 - 1807 Rom)

„Ulysses on the Island of Circe“
1793
oil on canvas
115 × 155 cm (painting); 115.5 × 158 cm (e×hibition catalogue)
Signed and dated lower right: Angelica.Kauffman. / Pinx: Romae / 1793

Provenance


1793 for Sir John Rushout 5th Bt. (1738-1800), later 1st Baron Northwick, Northwick Park, Worcestershire;
by descent to his daughter Harriet, Lady Cockerell, born Rushout, (deceased 1851), wife of Sir Charles Cockerell of Sezincot/ Roushout (1809–1869);
by descent to her son Sir Charles Fitzgerald Rushout, 3rd Bt. (1840-1879);
Auction sale of his collection: Phillips & Son, London, Valuable Property Removed from Sezincot House, Gloucestershire by Order of the Executors of Sir Charles Rushout, Bart, 9 December 1879 (Ulysses in the Island of Circe. Sold to Eyles for £ 105., cf. Manners/ Williamson 1924, p. 232);
private collection, England;
1960 art market, Vienna;
acquired by the grandfather of the present owner; since then Austrian family property

Exhibition


Angelika Kauffmann, Ein Weib von ungeheurem Talent, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum/Angelika Kauffmann Museum, Bregenz/Schwarzenberg, 14 June to 5 November 2007, no. 102
„… Ihr werten Frauenzimmer, auf!“. Malerinnen der Aufklärung, Gemälde-Ausstellung zum Festival des Historischen Frauen-Kunst-und Kultur-Projekts, Das Roselius-Haus, Bremen 1993, cat.-no. 12
„… und hat als Weib unglaubliches Talent (Goethe)“. Angelika Kauffmann (1741-1807) und Marie Ellenrieder (1791-1863). Malerei und Graphik, Rosgarten Museum, Konstanz 1992, no. 37

Literature


Tobias Natter (ed.), Angelika Kauffmann. Ein Weib von ungeheurem Talent, exhibition catalogue, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz/Angelika Kauffmann Museum, Schwarzenberg, Ostfildern 2007, p. 204-205, no. 102 (ill.)
Bettina Baumgärtel/Iris Bubenik-Bauer/Ute Schalz-Laurenze (ed.), „... Ihr werten Frauenzimmer, auf!“. Malerinnen der Aufklärung, exhibition catalogue, Das Roselius-Haus, Bremen 1993, p. 89-90, cat.-nr. 12 (ill.)
Bettina Baumgärtel/Elisabeth von Gleichenstein/Karin Stober (ed.), „… und hat als Weib unglaubliches Talent (Goethe)“. Angelika Kauffmann (1741-1807) und Marie Ellenrieder (1791-1863). Malerei und Graphik, exhibition catalogue, Rosgarten Museum, Konstanz 1992, p. 173, no. 37 (ill. 17)
Victoria Manners/George Williamson, Angelica Kauffmann, R.A. Her life and her works, London 1924, Memorandum of paintings by Angelika Kauffmann, p. 163, p. 168 and p. 172; also mentioned p. 93, p. 98 and p. 232;
Constantin von Wurzbach, Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Vienna 1864, Vol. 11, p. 51

Estimate: € 250.000 - 500.000
Result: € 384.000 (incl. fees)
Auction is closed.