Christian Friedrich Hecker (active Italy circa 1770-1790)

Design for a portrait medal, perhaps showing Jacob Künhans, in a circular cartouche topped with a ribbon

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Christian Friedrich Hecker (active Italy circa 1770-1790)
Design for a portrait medal, perhaps showing Jacob Künhans, in a circular cartouche topped with a ribbon
signed, inscribed and dated 'Christiano Federico Hecker di Bernsbach in Saxsonia Venezia li 1. Giugno. 1779.' and with number '7'
black chalk
5 7/8 x 8 3/8 in. (15 x 21.2 cm.); with three other drawings by various hands, including Design for a double-sided portrait medal representing Jacob Künhans and the collector of medals Abate Angelo Bottari; Fame and Time by Giuseppe Carlo Zucchi, commemorating the defence of Gibraltar from the Spanish by Elliot in 1782; and Frontispiece of Jacob Künhans's Album Amicorum, 1780 (4)

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Theophil Friedrich Jakob Künhans, Venice.

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Hecker is primarily known for his execution of cameos, an art to which he playfully refers in this medal design, showing a figure in profile. The identification of the sitter as Künhans cannot be confirmed, although the profile does share some similarities with the other medal design in this lot, which identifies the sitters as Künhans and the numismatist Angelo Bottari.

Giuseppe Carlo Zucchi, who executed one of the other drawings in this lot, was a printmaker and the brother-in-law of Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807), of whom he wrote a biography.