Johann Ulrich Schnetzler - Portrait of Christian Georg Schütz the Elder - image-1

Lot 1304 Dα

Johann Ulrich Schnetzler - Portrait of Christian Georg Schütz the Elder

Auction 1245 - overview Cologne
16.05.2024, 14:00 - Old Masters and 19th Century, Part II
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 7.560 € (incl. premium)
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Johann Ulrich Schnetzler

Portrait of Christian Georg Schütz the Elder

Oil on canvas (relined). 92.7 x 82.5 cm.

This depiction was first thought to be a self portrait of the Frankfurt based landscape painter Christian Georg Schütz the Elder (1719 – 1792). However, in 1914 it was identified as a work by the painter and plasterer Johann Ulrich Schnetzler from Schaffhausen and is thought to have been painted during Schütz' visit to Switzerland in 1761/1762. The portrait was once part of the important painting collection of Albert Grossmann in Brombach near Lörrach, as proven by the old label on the back of the stretcher ("[…] Grossmann / Brombach.").

Certificate

Dr Gerhard Kölsch, Mainz, 25.7.2013.

Provenance

Recorded in the collection of Albert Grossmann, Brombach near Lörrach, in 1914. - Dorotheum, Vienna, 15.3.1977, lot 121. - Private collection. - Koller, Zurich, 19.9.2014. - German private collection.

Literature

Georg Biermann, Deutsches Barock und Rokoko, Darmstadt 1914, vol. 1, ill. 408 – Heidrun Ludwig, Die Gemälde des 18. Jahrhunderts im Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Eurasburg 1997, p. 54.