ROBERT THEER, signed and dated Vienna 1829

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ROBERT THEER, signed and dated Vienna 1829

The Painter Johann Ulbrich at the age of 27, with curly dark hair, wearing a dark grey coat with yellow waistcoat and knotted black silk cravat; stormy sky background; rectangular with canted corners -- 122 x 88 mm, gilt-metal mount.

Provenance

Moritz Mayr Collection, Vienna; his sale, Vienna, Wawra, 16 May 1927, lot 105, ill., sold 1,400 Austrian Schillings; acquired by the previous owner from Leo Schidlof, Paris, in October 1928.

Literature

Léo R. Schidlof, La miniature en Europe, Graz, 1964, vol. II, p. 830 (described as "excellente").

Lot Essay

The backing paper of the miniature is inscribed in pencil: "Mein Alter Freund Ulbrich Robert Theer".
For details on the life of the miniaturist and genrepainter Johann Pius Ulbrich (Georgswalde [Bohemia] 1802 - Vienna 1880), see Heinrich Fuchs, Die Österreichische Bildnisminiatur, Vienna, 1982, vol. II, p. 94).

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