A hawking party by a village, an extensive landscape beyond

Details

August Querfurt (Wolfenbüttel 1696-1761 Vienna)
A hawking party by a village, an extensive landscape beyond
signed with monogram 'A.Q.' (lower left, on the branch)
oil on copper
14 7/8 x 19 3/8 in. (37.8 x 49.2 cm.)
in a cavetto moulded frame with alternating laurel sprays and palm flowers, with a lappeted slip

Provenance

Private collection, Paris.
Niklaus Reber (d. 1821), Basel.
From about 1810, private Swiss collection, probably Burchardt, Basel and by descent to
Madame von der Muehl, Basel; Sotheby's, London, 9 December, 1981, lot 2.

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Lot Essay

This picture was part of a collection that the art dealer Niklaus Reber formed at the beginning of the 19th Century, most probably for the Burchardt family in Basel. The collection was inherited in part by Madame von der Muehle, who also owned works by Louis-Leopold Boilly, Hubert Robert and Jakob Philipp Hackert; Boilly's painting of A young woman ironing was subsequently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. no. 1983.10). As with the present lot, all Madame von der Muehle's pictures were offered in 1981 in the same early 19th Century Parisian frames, suggesting the collection was formed by Reber in Paris at that time.

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