Prince Elector Maximilian III Joseph on horseback Franz Anton Siebel, 1797. - image-1
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Lot 90 Dα

Prince Elector Maximilian III Joseph on horseback Franz Anton Siebel, 1797.

Auction 1237 - overview Cologne
16.11.2023, 10:00 - Stained Glass from four Centuries
Estimate: 1.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 1.386 € (incl. premium)
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Prince Elector Maximilian III Joseph on horseback
Franz Anton Siebel, 1797.

Glass painted on reverse in eglomisé technique with opaque pigments and gold and silver leaf on black ground. Signed on the reverse "Franz Anton Siebel FECIT: den 31. Mai des Jahres 1797". Localised losses to the upper left. Carved softwood frame gilded over red bole, H 39, W 29 cm.

Born in Frickenhausen, Franconia, in 1777, Franz Anton Siebel is documented as having worked for several years as a silhouette painter in Vienna before learning to paint on glass and in the eglomisé technique at the Silbermann porcelain factory in Lichtenfels. He perfected this technique and went on to become one of the leading artists of his time. Although Siebel died in Lichtenfels in 1842 at the age of 75, very few of his works have survived.

Provenance

Auctioned by Lankes, Döhlau, 2011.

Literature

Illus. in Steiner, Goldglanz und Silberpracht – Hinterglasmalerei aus vier Jahrhunderten, Berlin-Munich 2015, no. 67.
For this artist see von Lichtenberg, Mohn & Kothgasser. Transparent bemaltes Biedermeierglas, Munich 2009, p. 118 f.

Exhibitions

2015 Schaezlerpalais der Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg.