Live Auction 22319Remastered: Old Masters from the Collection of J.E. Safra - Selling Without Reserve
AUSTRIAN SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Lot 47

AUSTRIAN SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

A vanitas still life with a skull, sheet music, silver and gold coins, a bouquet of flowers and a broken candle

Closed24 May 2023

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AUSTRIAN SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
A vanitas still life with a skull, sheet music, silver and gold coins, a bouquet of flowers and a broken candle
oil on panel
17 1/2 x 22 5/8 in. (44.5 x 57.9 cm.)

John Corely, Grays Inn; (†) his sale, Christie's, London, 17 February 1866, lot 38, as J. Van Streek (4 gns. to Eckford).
Henry George Bohn (1796-1884), North End House, Twickenham; (†) his sale, Christie's, London, 19 March 1885, lot 410, as J. van Streik (5 gns. to Durford).
Private collection, Norfolk, by descent until,
[Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1997, lot 234, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

The silver Koventionstalers in the foreground of this still life were the standard coin of the Austrian Empire in the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, the most famous example, the Maria Theresa Taler, is still minted today. The portrait of Maximilian Joseph, 1st King of Bavaria, visible on the propped-up coin at lower left assists in dating this painting to the early nineteenth century, as he ascended the throne in 1806.