Auction House

Auction: Old Master Paintings

12. April 2016, 3:00 pm

Object overview
Object

0069

„Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus“
c. 1677
oil on canvas
99.5 × 76.5 cm
on the reverse label Kunsthandlung H.O. Miethke, Vienna

Provenance

Collection Fürst Wenzel Anton Dominik Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711-1794), Vienna;
Sale of the collection Kaunitz-Rietberg, Artaria, Vienna, 13th March 1920, lot 128 (as Poussin);
Sale H.O. Miethke, Vienna, 12th January 1886, lot 22 (as Poussin, acquired by a Mr. Schrack);
1890s private collection, Linz;
1926 directly acquired by the father of the present owner; ever since family property

Exhibition

exhibited by Dr. Hermann Ubell as Nicolas Poussin at the Upper Austrian Landesmuseum, probably c. 1910, Museum Francisco Carolinum (according to a letter to the father of the current owner dated 1926)

Literature

Theodor von Frimmel, Lexikon der Wiener Gemaeldesammlungen, Vol. G-L, Munich 1914, p. 347

We are grateful to Giuseppe Fusari for confirming the painting as a work by Johann Carl Loth and his help with the catalogue entry (on the basis of professional photographs). The painting will be included in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the artist.
We also thank Prof. Erich Schleier for his information regarding the attribution of this painting.

Estimate: € 10.000 - 20.000
Result: € 7.680 (incl. fees)
Auction is closed.