Live Auction 17420Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of Art Sold to Benefit Rugby School
Anton Kern (Bohemia 1709-1747 Dresden)
Lot 135

Anton Kern (Bohemia 1709-1747 Dresden)

The Virgin and Charity

Closed4 December 2018

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GBP 3,000

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Anton Kern (Bohemia 1709-1747 Dresden)
The Virgin and Charity
with attribution 'Pittoni' and with lot number (from Woodburn sale, see provenance) '31' (on the old mount)
black chalk, red wash, heightened with white
17 x 12½ in. (43.3 x 31.9 cm)

Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830) (L. 2445).
Samuel Woodburn, London (1786-1853), from the Collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence; Christie's, 4 June 1860, lot 31 'an allegorical subject, PITTONI'; and five others (£1 to Bloxam).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum; with his initials 'M: H: B', inscription and attribution 'Rugby School Art Museum e dono Matt: H: Bloxam/ [Pittoni], Giovanni Battista a d 1690-1767 Vincenza/ Lawrence Collection' (on the mount).

Specialist note

Kern has taken this composition from a detail in a painting by Giovanni Battista Pittoni and others showing The allegorical tomb of the archbishop Tillotson, which exists in a number of versions and in a print after one of these paintings (F. Zava Boccazzi, Pittoni, Venice, 1979, nos. 83, 92, I.19, ill). Kern's early work especially displays a strong dependence on Pittoni, of whose work he made numerous copies. Kern's drawings and paintings are often so close to those by his master that they have been wrongly attributed to him.