Bildnis eines Herrn im roten Kleid

1776

not on display

Johann Melchior Wyrsch1732 Buochs – 1798 Buochs

The date of origin, 1776, and the French provenance suggest that the painting was created in Besançon, where Wyrsch was director of the art academy he co-founded in 1768-1784.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Also known as

Portrait of a Gentleman in a Red Coat

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

image: 42.5 x 34.5 cm (oval)

Inventory number

2624

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by Maurice Hottinguer, Paris, 1943

Signature

inscr. on verso: peint p. Wyrsch / 1776.

Inscriptions

Accession year

1943

Provenance

Johann Melchior Wyrsch (*1732 Buochs, +1798 Buochs) (Künstler/-in)
Verbleib unbekannt
Hôtel Drouot (Auktion), Paris
o.D. – 1943, Maurice Hottinguer (*1872 Paris, +1969 Paris) (Sammler/-in), Paris, Kauf
ab 1943, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, GeschenkSitzungsprotokoll der Sammlungskommission Archiv 10.30.10.41-42, 31.03.1943, II.3; 21.10.1943, II.b; 9.11.1943, I.a.

About the provenance

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Literature (general)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 56.

Object type

painting

Classification

B 1[1] painting 16th to 18th century CHE

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