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Der Liebesbrief by 
																	Hans Makart

Hans Makart

( Austrian, 1840 - 1884 )

Der Liebesbrief

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LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

56.89 in. (144.50 cm.) (height) by 43.70 in. (111.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with initials (lower right)

Exhibited:

Vienna, Künstlerhaus, IV Grosse Jahres-Kunstausstellung, 1875, no. 204. Dresden, Akademische Kunstausstellung, 1876. Vienna, Künstlerhaus, Jubiläums Ausstellung, 1888, no. 33.

Literature:

Kunstschrift, Vol XII, no. 9, 7 December 1876, cols. 140-141. Illustrierter Zeitung, 6 October 1877, p. 267, illustrated p. 276. F. Bondy (publisher), Makart Album, Vienna, 1882, pl. 5. (as Die beide Freundinnen). Illustrierter Zeitung, 11 October 1884, p. 355, illustrated p. 362. E. Ranzoni, Hans Makart: Werke in Heliogravure, 1889, pl. 52. A. Weixlgärtner, 'Stichwort Makart' in Neue Österreichische Biographie 1815 - 1918, Vienna, 1929, Vol. 6, p. 24. F. von Boetticher, Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Dresden, 1891, vol. I/2, p. 958, no. 34. R. Feuchtmüller & W. Mrazek, Kunst in Österreich, 1860-1918, Vienna, 1964, pl. 37. R. Feuchtmüller, Kunst in Österreich, vol. 2, Vienna, 1973, pl. 193. G. Frodl, Hans Makart, Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, Salzburg, 1974, pp. 21, 352, no. 258, pl. 63.

Provenance:

Anonymous sale; Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 25 May 1886. Adalbert von Zinner, Vienna (by 1888). with H.O. Miethke, Vienna. Anonymous sale; Galerie St. Lucas, Vienna, 3-4 February 1921, lot 71, as Zwei Schwestern. Kojiro Matsukata, Tokyo, circa 1930. Private collection, Japan.

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