Auction House

Auction: Old Master Paintings

28. November 2023, 4:00 pm

Object overview
Object

1039

Martin van Meytens

(Stockholm 1695 - 1770 Wien)

„Count Johann Adam of Questenberg (1678-1752)“
1730s
oil on canvas; framed
120 x 92 cm

Provenance

private property, Austria;
Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, Winter 1988/89, no. 24;
private collection, Vienna

Literature

Catalogue of the Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, Winter 1988/89, no. 24;
Georg Lechner, Some Considerations on the Paintings by Martin van Meytens the Younger in the Collection of the Brukenthal National Museum (pp. 297-311), in: Brukenthal, Acta Musei, XII.2, Sibiu 2017, p. 299, ill. 21 ("the artistic quality of the two pictures can be described as equal");
Agnes Husslein-Arco, Martin van Meytens der Jüngere, exhibition catalogue, Belvedere, Vienna 2014, p. 84 (this painting is mentioned as the second version);

We are grateful to Dr. Georg Lechner, Vienna, for his kind assistance with cataloguing this work.

Estimate: € 8.000 - 15.000
Hammer price: € 8.000
Auction is closed.