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After Anton Raphael Mengs, German 1728-1779- Self-portrait; oil on paper laid down on canvas,...
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After Anton Raphael Mengs,
German 1728-1779-
Self-portrait;
oil on paper laid down on canvas,...
Price Realised: £722
Estimate: £600 - £800
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Lot 96
Description
After Anton Raphael Mengs,
German 1728-1779-
Self-portrait;
oil on paper laid down on canvas, 46.1 x 38.2 cm., (unframed).
Provenance:
Private Collection, UK.
Literature:
S. Roettgen, Catalogue raisonné of Anton Raphael Mengs, online edition, no.DW_374/WK_01.
Note:
The present work is a sensitively-painted copy after Mengs's self-portrait, which is itself unfinished, and which is listed in the artist's catalogue raisonné [DW_374]. This copy is believed to have been painted in around 1800, when the original was in Madrid. Mengs produced various self-portraits over the course of his career, including finished paintings which are held in the Museo del Prado, Madrid [P002197], and in the Metropolitan Museum in New York [2010.445].
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