JOHANN-JULIUS HEINSIUS, signed and dated 1796

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JOHANN-JULIUS HEINSIUS, signed and dated 1796

A fine self-portrait of the artist holding his palette, with flowing curly long dark hair and sidewhiskers, wearing an aubergine-coloured coat, a yellow waistcoat and a white shirt; foliage background -- 80 mm diam., hairline crack, copper frame with laurel border.

Provenance

Guilhou Collection, sold Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 2-4 March 1905, lot 161 (460 Gold Francs to Bernard); Ch. B*** [Charles Bocher] Collection, sold Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 21-22 February 1906, lot 118; The Collection of Monsieur Amédée Vialay (in 1913).

Literature

Charles Oulmont, J.-E. Heinsius 1740-1812 Peintre de Mesdames de France, Paris, 1913, illustr. colour pl. I (frontispice), p. 118 nr 113.

Lot Essay

Johann-Julius Heinsius (1740-1812), peintre de Mesdames de France and author of the present self-portrait, has been confused with his brother Johann-Ernst (1731-1794, working for the courts of Weimar and Rudolstadt) until the publication of Hedwig Dauch-Schroeder's thesis Johann-Ernst Heinsius (Jena, 1937). pp. 7-11.

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