LOT DETAILS
Materials:
Oil on Canvas
Measurements:
24.61 in. (62.50 cm.) (height) by 19.29 in. (49.00 cm.) (width)
Markings:
Signed A. Wertmüller and dated à Lyon 1781
Condition:
Gilded and bronzed period frame
Exhibited:
Worcester Art Museum, unknown year.
Literature:
Maj Sterner, 'Utställningar', artikel in (ed. Albin Roosval) "Svenska hem i ord och bilder", 1930, mentioned and ill. at p. 21.
Gunnar W Lundberg, "Wertmüller - Peintre suédois de Marie-Antoinette - son séjour a Lyon", 1972, listed in the catalogue, no 38, p. 37, ill. pl. XIV.
Provenance:
Earlier in Carl Ulrik Palms collection, Stockholm, bought at Adolphe Lion in Paris.
Fritzes Kungl Hovbokhandel, Stockholm, Sweden, 1930.
Earlier in Richard Hultmarks collection, Linköping, Sweden
Bukowskis Auctionhouse, 26th-27th February 1936, catalogue no 50, ill. pl. 12.
Ealier in Emil Hultmarks collection, Stockholm, Sweden.