LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

20??? x 26¹?? in. (52.8 x 66.4 cm.)

Description:

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Provenance:

RUDOLF VON ALT (AUSTRIAN, 1812-1905) The Death of Torquato Tasso at Sant'Onofrio al Gianicolo, Rome signed and dated 'Rudolph Alt 1837' (lower left) oil on canvas 207?8 x 261?8 in. (52.8 x 66.4 cm.) The artist. His estate sale; Galerie H. O. Miethke, Vienna, 12-13 February 1906, lot 12, as Tasso in einer Säulenhalle bei Rom and erroneously catalogued with the artist's signature spelled 'Rudolf.' Adolf Wendlinger (d. 1933) and Ernestine Wendlinger (d. 1921), Vienna, by 1911. Greta Petschek Gellert (1894 - 1980). By descent to the present owner. 'Neuigkeiten vom Kunstmarkte', Der Kunstmarkt, Leipzig, 2 February 1906, p. 101, as Tasso in einer Säulenhalle bei Rom. U. Thieme and F. Becker, eds., Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, Leipzig, 1907, vol. 1, p. 344, as Tasso in einer Säulenhalle bei Rom. L. Hevesi, Altkunst-Neukunst, Vienna, 1909, p. 128, as Tasso. L. Hevesi and K. Kuzmany, Rudolf Alt: Sein Leben und Sein Werk, Vienna, 1911, pp. 13, 156, as Tasso im Klostergang bei Sant'Onofrio. M. Hussl-Hörmann and H. Giese, Rudolf von Alt: die Ölgemälde, Vienna, 2011, p. 173, no. 11.22, as Tasso im Klostergang bei San Onofrio in Rom, 1837.