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Materials:

pencil on transparent paper

Size Notes:

and 26. 5 x 37 cm

Description:

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Condition:

unframed; mounted on laid paper, mounted; damaged (tears)

Provenance:

according to an inscription on the reverse: Nachlass Hans Makarts (estate of Hans Makart); private collection, Austria., The present drawing belongs to the early work of Hans Makart around 1865 and is a design for a wall painting which was not realised. The study may have been auctioneered as a part of a set of drawings in the estate auction sale of Hugo Othmar Miethke on 26th March 1885. See: Künstlerischer Nachlass und Antiquitäten-Sammlung von Hans Makart“, ed. by A. Streit, Vienna 1885, Öffentliche Versteigerung am 26. März 1885“, pp. 10-12