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Venus and Adonis   Matthäus Donner (1704–1756)

Venus and Adonis

Matthäus Donner (1704–1756)

c. 1740

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Venus und Adonis
Material/technique
Bronze relief, brown patina
Measurements
32 × 47 cm
Acquisition
acquired in 2009 by Prince Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein
Artists/makers/authors
Matthäus Donner
Detailed information
Inventory number
SK 1514
Signature/inscriptions content only available in German
sign.: GRD
Provenance
Baron Cederström Collection, Sweden; Nathaniel and Albert de Rothschild Collection, Paris, inv. no. AR364; listed in 1939 in the copy of the inventory of confiscated artefacts from the Alphonse Rothschild Collection under the number 364; from 1948 Austrian Belvedere Gallery, as a dedication to Clarice Rothschild (inv. no. 4261); restituted in 1999 to the heirs of Clarice Rothschild; acquired on 28 April 2009 at Sotheby's, Paris, auction "Mobilier et Objets d'art".No. 4261); restituted to the heirs of Clarice Rothschild in 1999; acquired on 28 April 2009 at Sotheby's, Paris, auction "Mobilier, Sculptures et Objets d'Art", lot 19
Iconography
Venus and Adonis
Literature
Ausst.-Kat. Georg Raphael Donner. 1693–1741, Michael Krapf (Hg.), erschienen Wien 1993, S. 415-417, Kat. 89

Peter Volk, Georg Raphael Donners Relief „Venus beweint den toten Adonis“, in: Regina Kaltenbrunner, Salzburg Museum (Hg.), Barockberichte. Informationsblätter des Salzburger Barockmuseums zur bildenden Kunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Salzburg 2001, Bd. 59/60, 2012, S. 705–715, S. 708, Abb. 5, Abb. 7 (Detail)

Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war. Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens, Wien 2003, S. 1016, Kat. 364

Ausst.-Kat. Der Fürst als Sammler. Neuerwerbungen unter Hans-Adam II. von und zu Liechtenstein, Johann Kräftner (Hg.), Liechtenstein Museum, Wien 12.2.2010–24.8.2010, erschienen Wien 2010, Abb. S. 273
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