Found-Object Report | Object report

Maurice de Saxe, Duc de Curlande et de Semigallie Maréchal de France

after a painting by Hyacinthe Rigaud

Lost Art-ID

613385

Artist / Creator

Wille, Johann Georg

Birth

1715.11.05, Biebertal (Gießen)

Death

1808.04.05, Paris

Title

Maurice de Saxe, Duc de Curlande et de Semigallie Maréchal de France

Additional title

after a painting by Hyacinthe Rigaud

Dating

1745

Object type

Group of reported objects

Graphic

Material / Technique

Paper / printed (copper engraving)

Measures

Blattmaß 46,8 x 33,8 cm; Druckmaß 46,8 x 33,8 cm

Height

46.80 cm

Width

33.80 cm

Inventory number

43-3

Description

Inscribed in the plate lower left: peint par Hiacinthe Rigaud Chev. de l'Ord. de St. Michel; lower centre: A Paris chez l'Auteur Quay des Augustins entre les Rues Pavée et Gile-coeur, au logis de M. Emery.; lower right: Et Gravé par J. G. Will 1745; named in the illustration: Maurice de Saxe, Duc de Curlande et de Semigallie Maréchal de France

Provenance

26.11.1943 purchased from the art antiquarian Reinhold Puppel, formerly Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin; the art antiquarian was Aryanised in 1936 by the part-owner Puppel. Hollstein, who was Jewish and married and had been banned from the profession, emigrated to Holland in 1937; the sheet was purchased after the Aryanisation of the art shop. It is not known when and from whom the art shop acquired it. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the print belongs to the old stock of Hollstein & Puppel.

Literature / Source

Charles Le Blanc, Le graveur en taille douce ou catalogues raisonnés des estampes dues aux graveurs les plus célèbres. 1: Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Jean Georges Wille, Leipzig: Weigel 1847, Nr. 121.

Published since

31.03.2023