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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Austrian School, 17th century
Portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand III (1609–1657); Portrait of Empress Maria Anna of Austria (1606–1646)
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6,000 - 8,000 EUR
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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Austrian School, 17th century
Portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand III (1609–1657); Portrait of Empress Maria Anna of Austria (1606–1646)
both stamped and dated with a double coat of arms on the reverse: 1636 MW
a pair, both oil on pewter, oval, unframed
the first unframed: 21.8 x 18.2 cm.; 8⅝ x 7⅛ in.
the second unframed: 22.5 x 18.6 cm.; 8⅞ x 7⅜ in.
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These portraits depicting Ferdinand III (1609–1657) and Empress Maria Anna of Austria (1606–1646) follow two portraits by Frans Lucyx held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,1 with only slight variation in the costume of the sitters.
The MW pewter makers mark probably refers to Master Michael Weinzierl, who on 24 October 1636 became a citizen of Regensburg.2 These initials are also seen with the letter R hallmark underneath, for Regensburg.
1 Both oil on canvas; Emperor Ferdinand III, 77.5 × 66.5 cm., inv. no. 8024; Maria Anna of Spain, wife of Ferdinand III, 150 x 131 cm., inv. no. 3196.
2 E. Hintze, Die Deutschen Zinngießer und ihre Marken Band 6: Süddeutsche Zinngiesser. Teil II, Künzelzau/ Sulzbach, Leipzig 1928, p. 198, no. 1049.