BY NIKOLAUS MICHAEL SPENGLER, DATED 1762

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A PAIR OF GERMAN REVERSE GLASS PAINTINGS
BY NIKOLAUS MICHAEL SPENGLER, DATED 1762
Each depicting figures within an interior scene in the manner of David Teniers II, within a later rectangular ebonised frame, each signed 'Nicol. Michael Spengler. pinx. 1762.', written to reverse '2960/117'
18½ x 29½ in. (47 x 75 cm.) (2)

Provenance

Acquired from Hansueli Fröhlich, St. Gallen, 1982.

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Lot Essay

The Hofglasmaler Nicolaus Michael Spengler (1700 -1776) is recorded as having produced two reverse glass paintings for Jagdschloss Kranichstein, Darmstadt, the hunting lodge of the Ludwig VIII (1691 - 1768), the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.

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