Live Auction 13917Old Master & British Paintings
Austrian School, 18th century
Lot 58

Austrian School, 18th century

Portrait of an artist, three-quarter-length, seated at a draped table with a palette knife and a rolled portfolio of drawings, in a fur-trimmed gown, embroidered waistcoat and negligee cap, holding a palette and brushes

Closed29 March 2017

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Austrian School, 18th century
Portrait of an artist, three-quarter-length, seated at a draped table with a palette knife and a rolled portfolio of drawings, in a fur-trimmed gown, embroidered waistcoat and negligee cap, holding a palette and brushes
oil on canvas
45 x 35 in. (116.4 x 88.9 cm.)
inscribed '464' (lower right)

Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Galitzine (1721-1793), Ambassador of the Russian Empire, Vienna, 1761-1792, by whom bequeathed with the entirety of his collection to his brother,
Prince Alexandre Mikhailovich Galitzine (1723-1807), Vice-Chancellor of the Imperial Court, at his residence in Moscow, by whom bequeathed with the entirety of the collection to the Galitzine Hospital, Moscow,
Prince Serge Mikhailovich Galitzine the Elder (1774-1859), in the picture gallery of the Galitzine Hospital, Moscow; (probably) sale, Galitzine Hospital, Moscow, 1818, lot 464, as 'a self-portrait by Kupetsky'.

Specialist note

We are grateful to Vittoria Markina and Liubov Savinskaya of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, for these references.