Portrait of Freiherr Ernst Löbl of Greinburg, aged 15, full-length, in a gold embroidered green costume and black cape, in an interior

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Portrait of Freiherr Ernst Löbl of Greinburg, aged 15, full-length, in a gold embroidered green costume and black cape, in an interior
with inscription '...Ernst Löbl Freiherr auf Greinburg/AETATIS SUAE. 15 ANNO 1609.' and coat-of-arms (upper right)
oil on canvas, unframed and unstretched
73 x 36 in. (185.4 x 91.5 cm.)

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Please note that the illustration for this Lot has been WRONGLY numbered as Lot 66.

拍品專文

The sitter was the last of his line to live at Schloss Greinburg, Austria, which he sold in 1621 to Graf Leonhard Helfrich von Meggau. The castle had been aquired in 1533 by Johan Leble (Löbl), an Imperial Councellor, Burgvogt (Governor of a castle) of Enns and Landvogt (Governor of a territory) of Swabia, and it was under him that the building took much of its present form. After several changes of hands after 1621, the castle was aquired in 1822 by the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, becoming their official residence.