Merry company with a flautist China, produced for the European market, last quarter 18th C. - image-1
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Lot 55 Dα

Merry company with a flautist China, produced for the European market, last quarter 18th C.

Auction 1237 - overview Cologne
16.11.2023, 10:00 - Stained Glass from four Centuries
Estimate: 1.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 1.260 € (incl. premium)
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Merry company with a flautist
China, produced for the European market, last quarter 18th C.

Glass panel painted on reverse in transparent pigments. Retouches to the white. Gilded softwood frame, H 31, W 26 cm.

This reverse glass painting follows the print by the Berlin pastel artist and engraver Georg Friedrich Schmidt (1712 - 1775), who in turn reproduced the painting by Nicolas Lancret (1690 - 1743) in reverse. The painting entitled "Par une tendre chansonette" is now in the collection of The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.

Provenance

Collection of Dr. Strüngmann, Tegernsee.
Auctioned by Neumeister, Munich, March 2008.