Live Auction 2769Old Master Pictures and Drawings
Circle of Anton Raphael Mengs (Zsti nad Labem 1728-1779 Rome)
Lot 230

Circle of Anton Raphael Mengs (Zsti nad Labem 1728-1779 Rome)

Portrait of Louis de Silvestre (1675-1760), half-length, holding a pen and leaning on a portfolio

Closed14 November 2007

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EUR 8,650

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Circle of Anton Raphael Mengs (Zsti nad Labem 1728-1779 Rome)
Portrait of Louis de Silvestre (1675-1760), half-length, holding a pen and leaning on a portfolio
oil on canvas
64.6 x 51.7 cm.

Specialist note

A version of the same composition in pastel on paper is in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden (see S. Roettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs: 1728-1779, Munich, 1999, I, pp. 296-8, no. 229).