Franz Christoph Janneck - Zwei Gemälde aus dem Zyklus "Der Verlorene Sohn"
auction 400, Lot 77
SPRING AUCTION
on 14 April 2021
Franz Christoph Janneck
Zwei Gemälde aus dem Zyklus "Der Verlorene Sohn"
Differenzbesteuerung
Franz Christoph Janneck
1703 Graz - 1761 Vienna
Two paintings from the series "The Prodigal Son"
One painting signed lower left. Oil on copper. Each 31.5 x 45 cm. Restored. Framed.
Literature: Catalogue of the Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York 1872, page 60, catalogue number 163 and 164. - Pietsch, Ulrich, Preziosen einer süddeutschen Kunstsammlung. Munich 2001, page 160 f. - Baetjer, Katharine, Buying Pictures for New York: The Founding Purchase of 1871, in: Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume XXXIX (2004), page 240, number 163 and 164, illustration page 241.
Provenance: William Tilden Blodgett, New York (1870). - Common ownership by William Tilden Blodgett and John Taylor Johnson, first President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1871). - Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. - Removed from the inventory of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and subsequently auctioned at Christies New York, 31 May 1979, with catalogue number 72. - Private owner, South Germany.
