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Lot 2168 Dα

Francesco Bartolozzi - Portrait of an Artist - Angelika Kauffmann

Auction 1153 - overview Cologne
30.05.2020, 11:00 - Fine Art
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €

Francesco Bartolozzi

Portrait of an Artist - Angelika Kauffmann

Red chalk and charcoal on paper (watermarked Pro Patria). 23.4 x 18.7 cm.
Framed..

Inscribed by an unknown hand on the reverse: Portrait of Angelica Kauffmann
This work displays the characteristic soft polychromy used by the engraver and draughtsman Francesco Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi created copperplate engravings of numerous works by Angelika Kauffmann, a Swiss painter resident in Rome. For a further portrait of Kauffmann by Bartolozzi, cf.: A. de Vesme / A. Calabi: Francesco Bartolozzi, Milan 1928, no. 2030.

Provenance

Auctioned by Lempertz, Cologne 14.05.1999, lot 1243.- Private collection, Rhineland.