Poppy Harvey-Jones
Head of Sale
Lot 42
Johann Georg Platzer(St. Paul in Eppan 1704-1761)Elegant figures at an outdoor concert; and Elegant figures playing cards in an interior (2)
5 July 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£40,000 - £60,000
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Johann Georg Platzer (St. Paul in Eppan 1704-1761)
Elegant figures at an outdoor concert; and Elegant figures playing cards in an interior
a pair, oil on panel
44.2 x 36.2cm (17 3/8 x 14 1/4in). (2)
a pair, oil on panel
44.2 x 36.2cm (17 3/8 x 14 1/4in). (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
The Meates Collection, by whom offered
Sale, Christie's, London, 14 February 1835, lots 48 and 49 (bt. Patishale)
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1997, lot 235
Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 29 September 2004, lot 300
Sale, Christie's, London, 3 December 2008, lot 231
With Galerie d'Art Saint-Honoré, Paris
Private Collection, Southern Germany
Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 15 October 2013, lot 573 (sold for €110,100)
Private Collection, Belgium
At the time of the 2013 sale, Dr. Christina Pucher confirmed the attribution to Johann Georg Platzer and proposed a date of before 1740.
She also suggested that the Outdoor concert could be interpreted as An Allegory of the Five Senses. A variant of this composition, without the figure of the young servant boy on the right, was formerly in the Georg Shäfer Collection, Schweinfurt. A version of Elegant figures playing cards in an interior also appears in the Georg Shäfer Collection, Schweinfurt, and a further variant appeared on the German art market in 1992 and again in 2008.
For a discussion on the artist see lot 88.
