Portrait of an old man with bust. Praxiteles ? Johann Karl Loth
oil on canvas
45 1/5 by 40 2/5 in.; 115 by 103 cm.
Provenance
Probably Antonio Hoevenaar, Amsterdam;
His sale, The Hague, 1693, lot 8, (as "Een Architect, of Beeldhouwer, van denzelven 'Loth');
Possibly acquired by the artist Philip van Dijk;
His sale, The Hague, 13 June 1753, lot 6 (as "Praxiteles met een Hoofdt, zeer kunstig en kraftig geschildert, door Carlo Lotti");
Von Quandt, Dresden;
Herr Geheimer Kommerzienrat Fedor Zschille, Dresden;
His Sale, Cologne, J.M. Heberle, 27-28 May 1889, lot 3 (as by Guercino);
Acquired by Mutmann, Radolfzell, Germany;
Private Collection, Radolfzell, until 2001;
Private Collection, Germany.
Exhibited
Radolfzell, Museum der Stadt Radolfzell, on loan until 2001.
Literature
G. Hoet & P. Terwesten, Catalogus of Naamlyst van schilderyen, met derzlver prysen, Zedert in Holland als op andere plaatzen in openbaar verkogt..., Gravenhage 1770, vol. III, p. 69, no. 6;
G. Ewald, Johann Carl Loth 1632-1698, Amsterdam 1965, p. 116, no. 494;
S.A.C.D. van Heel, "Honderdvijftig advertenties van kunstverkopingen uit veertig Jaargangen van de Amsterdamsche Courant", in Jaarboek Amstelodamum, 1975, p. 158, no. 34;
J. Bikker, "Drost's end and Loth's beginning in Venice", in Burlington Magazine, vol. 144, no. 1188, March 2002, p. 155, plate 26 (as "Phidias Comtemplating a Bust").
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