LOT DETAILS

Materials:

a pair, both oil on canvas

Measurements:

Description:

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Markings:

both signed and dated lower right: I. V. ANGERMEYER F. Ao 1710

Condition:

boar framed: 17¼by 23? in.; 43.8 by 60.6 cm. Both canvases are taut on their stretchers. The stag canvas wax lined and the stretcher is bordered on its outer edges by a metal case that is not visible when framed. The boar canvas is lined to a modern support canvas. The overall images read strongly and clearly. Both paint surfaces are stable. Some of the red ground is faintly visible in areas that have slightly thinned with age, though this is not distracting. (Boar): The varnish fluoresces evenly under UV light. There are thin strokes of well-applied cosmetic inpainting visible, primarily to address craquelure and some thinness. More broadly applied retouches are visible in the background. (Stag): The varnish fluoresces somewhat unevenly under UV and more than one campaign of restoration is visible. There is an area of old restoration in the upper left background, as well as some scattered fine strokes of retouching, primarily to the craquelure, here and there. Some scattered spots of retouching concentrated near the edges. Some small spots of discoloration on lower edge. The paintings are ready to hang in their present condition. Offered in simple gilt frames.

Literature:

H. Seifertová, Johann Adalbert Angermeyer (1674-1742): A Prague Specialist in the Cabinet Still Life, Prague 2015, pp. 115, 212-213, cat. nos, 19 and 20, reproduced, the former further reproduced in color p. 116, the latter further reproduced in black and white p. 118.

Provenance:

The boar: Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 14 October 1997; Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 14 May 2003, lot 140; There acquired. The stag: Private family collection, San Francisco, for many years; Anonymous sale, Beverly, Massachusetts, Kaminski, 13 October 2013, lot 9114; Anonymous sale, Oxford, Mallams, 20 October 2021, lot 440; There acquired.