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Portrait of Hans Christof von Mindorf, aged 58, three-quarter-length, in armour, a baton in his right hand, his helmet on a table in the foreground; and Portrait of Sidonia Magdalena von Mindorf, half-length, in a lace-edged blue dress, a carnation in her right hand, a fan in her left, before a blue curtain
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S. Rötz (?), 1644
Portrait of Hans Christof von Mindorf, aged 58, three-quarter-length, in armour, a baton in his right hand, his helmet on a table in the foreground; and Portrait of Sidonia Magdalena von Mindorf, half-length, in a lace-edged blue dress, a carnation in her right hand, a fan in her left, before a blue curtain
the first inscribed and dated 'æTATIS SVæ: 58/GEPORN Ao. 1586 AM TAG/IOHANNES DES TAVFFERS. 1644' and inscribed with coat-of-arms (upper centre) further inscribed 'HANS CHRISTOF VON MINDORF FREIHER/AVF FEISTRITZ VND HOCHENPRVCKH AINER/LO:LA:IN STEIRVERORDTNETER AMPTS PRAE,/SIDENTAVCH DEROSELBENLANDT OBRI,,/STER IBER DAS AVFBOT ZVROS VNDT EVES'(upper left) and signed (?) 'St:Rötz./MA:' (lower right); the second inscribed 'SIDONIA MAGDALENA FRAV VON MINDORF. EIN GEBORNE FREIN VON EISISWALT' (centre left)
oil on canvas, unlined
128 x 94 cm.; and 123 x 93 cm.
two (2)
Portrait of Hans Christof von Mindorf, aged 58, three-quarter-length, in armour, a baton in his right hand, his helmet on a table in the foreground; and Portrait of Sidonia Magdalena von Mindorf, half-length, in a lace-edged blue dress, a carnation in her right hand, a fan in her left, before a blue curtain
the first inscribed and dated 'æTATIS SVæ: 58/GEPORN Ao. 1586 AM TAG/IOHANNES DES TAVFFERS. 1644' and inscribed with coat-of-arms (upper centre) further inscribed 'HANS CHRISTOF VON MINDORF FREIHER/AVF FEISTRITZ VND HOCHENPRVCKH AINER/LO:LA:IN STEIRVERORDTNETER AMPTS PRAE,/SIDENTAVCH DEROSELBENLANDT OBRI,,/STER IBER DAS AVFBOT ZVROS VNDT EVES'(upper left) and signed (?) 'St:Rötz./MA:' (lower right); the second inscribed 'SIDONIA MAGDALENA FRAV VON MINDORF. EIN GEBORNE FREIN VON EISISWALT' (centre left)
oil on canvas, unlined
128 x 94 cm.; and 123 x 93 cm.
two (2)