Portrait François Bouchot (1800-1842)
Presumed portrait of Lenau; Male portrait study;
Recto: lower right in pencil: "Fr Winterhalter 29 Sept / 1841";
Verso: stamp SGSM 18/Lugt no. 1094c, therein the inventory number in pencil; paper damaged at the lower edge;
Passepartout mask: embossed print in gold-brown, centre: "FRANZ X. WINTERHALTER", below embossed stamp SGSM 19, the stamp is pasted over with a round paper; below the cut-out on the right: “1940:12”; below right: “Angekauft durch / Freunde der Graphischen Sammlung”; on the left below the cut-out in pencil: “Bildnis Lenaus (?)”; on the lower edge, centre, in pencil: “195” (portfolio number); underlay, lower half in pencil: ’François Bouchot (1800 - 1842)"
Whereabouts unknown
n.d. - possibly February 1933 Archduke Friedrich of Austria-Teschen (04. 06.1856 - 30. 12.1936), Hungarian Altenburg/Magyaróvár, today Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary
n.d. - 22.05.1940 Unknown owner, consigned to the Dorotheum auction, sold for 50 RM
possibly 22 May 1940 - 1940 Kunsthandel Wilhelm Koeberlin (19 Oct. 1893-08 June 1954), Munich/Prien, possibly acquired at the Dorotheum auction, Vienna, sold to the Freunde der Graphischen Sammlung, Munich
c. 1940 Freunde der Graphischen Sammlung e.V., Munich, acquired from art shop Wilhelm Koeberlin, Munich, for RM 100.
1940 Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, acquired by the Freunde der Graphischen Sammlung e. V.
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