Lot 35 D α

Emanuel Handmann - Portrait of Rosina von Lerber-Dachselhofer

Auction 1094 - overview Cologne
20.09.2017, 14:30 - Paintings 15th-19th C.
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €
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Emanuel Handmann

Portrait of Rosina von Lerber-Dachselhofer

Oil on canvas (edges relined). 83 x 64.5 cm.
Signed and dated to the back of the canvas: EHandmann Pinx: Ao 1749 (E und H ligiert).

Emanuel Handmann was taught, among others, by Jean Restout in Paris. He settled in Bern following a sojourn to Italy and there became the leading portrait painter among the city's patricians. The present work depicts Rosina von Lerber-Dachselhofer (1710-1751), dressed in a yellow lace-trimmed gown and a blue cloak. She married Franz Ludwig von Lerber in 1747, and the couple's coat-of-arms can be seen in the upper right.

Provenance

Auctioned by Leo Spik, Berlin, 4.-6.12.1960. - Private collection, Berlin. - Private collection, North Germany.

Literature

Freivogel, Thomas: Emanuel Handmann (1718-1781). Ein Basler Porträtist im Bern des ausgehenden Rokoko (=Diss. Zürich 2000), Murten 2002, p. 167, no. 195.