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ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (AUSSIG 1728-1779 ROME)

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£ 475 000
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07.07.2022 19:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 31 | ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (AUSSIG 1728-1779 ROME)
ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (AUSSIG 1728-1779 ROME)

Portrait of Friedrich Christian, Prince of Saxony (1722-1763), three-quarter-length, in armour, with an ermine lined mantle and the sash and star of the Order of the White Eagle

oil on canvas, unlined

61 1⁄4 x 43 1⁄4 in. (155.7 x 110.8 cm.)





Provenance

(Probably) Commissioned by the sitter's father, Frederick Augustus II, Elector of Saxony (1696-1763), and by descent in the family to the following,

Friedrich August III, Elector of Saxony (1865-1932), at Schloss Sybillenort, Szczodre, (probably) sold following his death with the contents of the castle and subsequently reacquired by a descendant, and by inheritance to the present owner.



Literature

Sammlungskatalog der Gemäldegalerie Dresden, Dresden, 1765, p. 242.

G.L. Bianconi, Elogio Storico Del Cavaliere Anton Raffaele Mengs: con un Catalogo Delle Opere Da Esso Fatte, Milan, 1780, pp. 25 and 87.

Sammlungskatalog der Gemäldegalerie Dresden, Dresden, 1782, p. 290.

J.P. Doray de Longrais, Oeuvres de M. Mengs, traduites par Doray de Longrais. Eloge historique de M. Mengs, par N. Guibal et Louis He´rissant, Regensburg, 1782, p. 19.

M.C.F. Prange, Des Ritters Anton Raphael Mengs, ersten Mahlers Karl III. Königs in Spanien hinterlassne Werke, Halle, 1786, I, pp. 106 and 159.

G.N. d'Azara and C. Fea, Opere di Antonio Raffaello Mengs, primo Pittore del Re cattolico Carlo III, Rome, 1787, p. XLI.

G. Schilling, Anton Raphael Mengs: sämmtliche hinterlassene Schriften, Bonn, 1843, I, p. 26.

Sammlungskatalog der Gemäldegalerie Dresden, Dresden, 1872, p. 373.

K. Woermann, Katalog der Königlichen Gemäldegalerie zu Dresden, Dresden, 1887, p. 69.

J.L. Sponsel, Fürsten-Bildnisse aus dem Hause Wettin, Dresden, 1906, p. 68.

A. Feulner, Skulptur und Malerei des 18 Jahrhunderts in Deutschland, Potsdam, 1929, XX, p. 24.

S. Pückler-Limpurg, Der Klassizismus in der deutschen Kunst, Munich, 1929, p. 33.

H.W. Singer, Neuer Bildniskatalog, Leipzig, 1938, II, no. 11741.

D. Honisch, Anton Raphael Mengs und die Bildform des Frühklassizismus, Recklinghausen, 1965, p. 117, no. 213.

S. Roettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs, 1728-1779, Munich, 1999, I, pp. 224-25, no. 153, illustrated.



Exhibited

Dresden, Berliner Saal, Die Grosse-Kunstausstellung, 1908, no. 549.

Darmstadt, Residenzschloss, Deutsches Barock und Rokoko: herausgegeben im Anschluss an die Jahrhundert-Ausstellung deutscher Kunst 1650-1800, 1914, with catalogue by G. Biermann.



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Artist:Anton Raphael Mengs (1728 - 1779)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Austria, Western Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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