19th-Century Works of Art

Hans Makart

Oil Sketches for Pompeiian Wall Painting

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25,000 - 35,000 USD

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Hans Makart

Austrian

1840-1884

Oil Sketches for Pompeiian Wall Painting

oil on artist board

unframed: each 10.5 by 8.5 in.; 26.6 by 21.5 cm

framed: each 17 by 15. in.; 43.1 by 38.1 cm

Shepherd Gallery, Associates, Inc., New York

Private collection, 1975

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 27 January 2017, lot 576

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Pompeii as Source and Inspiration: Reflections in 18th and 19th Century Art, April-May 1977, no. 45, p. 50, illustrated.

New York City, IBM Gallery of Science and Art; Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Edith C. Blum Art Institute of Bard College; Holland, Michigan, The DePree Art Gallery of Hope College; and Miami, Bass Museum of Art, Pre-modern art of Vienna, 1848-1898 , May 1987-Janaury 1988, illustrated in the catalogue pp. 115-117, illustrated.

Located in the imperial hunting grounds outside of Vienna, the Hermesvilla was built ;by Emperor ;Franz Joseph ;I for his wife, Empress Elisabeth; the couple regularly spent time there between 1887 and Empress Elizabeth's assassination in 1898. Empress Elisabeth's ; Turnzimmer ;(gymnasium) was decorated with murals in the Pompeiian style, ;showing various sports.