AFTER ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (AUSSIG 1728-1779 ROME)
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AFTER ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (AUSSIG 1728-1779 ROME)

A Greek dancer: a young girl leaning against a classicizing plinth surrounded by attributes alluding to the transience of life

細節
AFTER ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (AUSSIG 1728-1779 ROME)
A Greek dancer: a young girl leaning against a classicizing plinth surrounded by attributes alluding to the transience of life
black chalk
11 ½ x 8 5⁄8 in. (29 x 22 cm.)
來源
Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 11 December 1991, lot 305 (as Anton Raphael Mengs).
出版
S. Roettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs 1728-1779, Munich, 1999, I, no. WK1 (under replicas and copies).

榮譽呈獻

Giada Damen, Ph.D.
Giada Damen, Ph.D. AVP, Specialist, Head of Sale

拍品專文

The drawing reproduces a composition by Mengs, The Greek Dancer, known from a large format cartoon in the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe (inv. 678; Roettgen, op. cit., no. 107, ill.). The cartoon, together with its pendant representing the Stoic philosopher Epictetus, also in Karlsruhe, was made in preparation for two, now lost, pastels commissioned from Mengs by Marc-Antoine-Nicolas de Croismare, Marquis de Lasson (1694-1772). The genesis of the two pastels is well documented in several letters exchanged between the artist and his French patron through the mediation of the painter Jean-Antoine Arthur. The pastels were executed around 1754-6 and immediately published and celebrated by contemporary sources. The existence of this copy attests to the importance and resonance of the commission.

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