BK-17029-A
ca. 1809 - ca. 1819
Medium
gild
Dimensions
29; 1486; 47
About this artwork
Commissioned by or for Alexandra Countess Branicka - Vasilievna Engelhardt (1754-1838) and Franciszwesky Ksawery Petrovich Branicki (1730-1819), 1819;{Baarsen 2013, pp. 480-7, no. 118.} …; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 230, no. Si.95ab.} purchased from his estate, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, ...
About the Artist
anonymous
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...