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A Man (August the Strong?)

Lost Art-ID
596687
after Hammerschmidt 2001, 14.141
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Deutsch)
Title
A Man (August the Strong?)
Dating
1697 oder 1706/1709
Object type
Painting
Group of reported objects
Painting
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Measures
approx. 153 x 119 cm or approx. 85 x 68 cm (dimensions extrapolated from the historical inventories; they may show a considerable discrepancy to the actual dimensions of the painting).
Description

Half-length figure of a younger man with a black wig, wearing dark shining armour with gilded studs, underneath a light-coloured, high-necked white shirt with bib; figure turned slightly to the left, the right arm splayed to the side, the left arm resting on a helmet decorated with [according to Hammerschmidt's information] coloured ostrich feathers; over the left shoulder a broad sash. On the upper left corner of the picture a curtain decorated with gold braid opens, on the upper right corner a view of a village landscape scene in the style of old German painting with a reed-roofed farmstead, a garden decorated with a roundel on which a column stands, and a sparsely leafy tree under which a trotting stag or a unicorn[?] can be seen.

The sitter is shown without the insignia of the Polish royal crown, the armour is perhaps a reference to his participation in the "Great Northern War", in which Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg was also in his service.

According to current knowledge, the paintings from the holdings of Field Marshal Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg were inscribed on the back with identical or nearly identical wording to the entries in his inventories. However, these inscriptions may have been at least partially removed during restoration.

Provenance
According to family tradition from the collection of Field Marshal Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg (* 1661, † 1747), General Field Marshal in Venetian service, given to him by Augustus the Strong; in his collection since at least 1736, if not before 1723 (Field Marshal Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg owned two portraits of King Augustus the Strong. If family tradition is correct, this painting must have been the larger of the two, described as a half-length figure, as the other is regularly described as "wearing a hat with a white plume of feathers"; one of the two paintings went to the Hehlen branch of the von der Schulenburg family in 1774); as late as his death in Verona on 14. 3. 1747, inventoried in August 1747 in the "Camera Scura" in the Palazzo Loredan (later called "dell'Ambasciatore") in Venice, which he had lived in for a long time; then transferred to the von der Schulenburg family palace in Berlin's Wilhelmstraße; Fideikommiss Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg; through separation of inheritance into the Wolfsburg branch of the von der Schulenburg family; Wolfsburg Castle (until 1932 Gardelegen County, Province of Saxony; then Gifhorn County, Province of Hanover; today the City of Wolfsburg); in 1942, after the Wolfsburg was relinquished by the von der Schulenburg family, moved to the newly built Neumühle Castle near Tangeln, municipality of Beetzendorf in the Altmark County of Salzwedel; former location there: Hall, 2nd upper floor; left behind in 1945 during the flight from Neumühle Castle before it was taken over by the Red Army; Neumühle Castle was assigned to the Soviet occupation zone and expropriated; whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit eines der in der Sammlung des Feldmarschalls M. J. von der Schulenburg und seiner Erben in Venedig und Berlin durch eine Vielzahl von Inventaren und andere zeitgenössische Quellen dokumentierten Werke; Inventarliste zum Fideikommiss Friedrich Gebhard Werner von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, 7. 8. 1860, Hausarchiv der Grafen von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, 1169, unter Teil B „Verzeichnis …“, S. 269 („Neuer Flügel, untere Etage“); Hammerschmidt, G. (i. A. der Grafen von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg): Das Schicksal des Kunst- und Kulturgutes von Schloss Wolfsburg-Neumühle im Altmarkkreis Salzwedel ab dem Zeitpunkt des Erlasses der Provinzialverwaltung Sachsen, Stand: November 2001 (Maschinenschrift, Nov. 2001, Hausarchiv der Grafen von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg), S. 06.50, lfde. Nr. 06.089 001 als Porträt Augusts des Starken.
Published since
19.11.2021
Contact
Graf von der Schulenburg
Position
Verwaltung
Phone
+49 (0) 5363 97190
info@graf-schulenburg.de
Circumstances of loss reported as
Looted property
Search Request, Person

Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, Günther Graf von der

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