Johann Eleazar Schenau
The love letter
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4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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Johann Eleazar Schenau
1737 - 1806
The love letter
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right Schenau pi[nxit] 1769
60.5 x 51.8 cm; 23⅞ by 20⅜ in.
Louis Michel Halbou;
Achille-Joseph de Robert de Lignérac, Duke of Caylus;
Antoine-Charles Dulac, Duke of Caylus;
His sale, Me Pierre Rémy, Paris, 19 April 1773, lot 14 (as a pair with The Fortune Teller);
Collection E. C. Brudenell;
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 12 March 1976, lot 107 (as a pair with The Fortune Teller);
Anonymous sale, Ader-Tajan, Paris, 9 April 1990, lot 124 (as a pair with The Fortune Teller).
Weltkunst, H. 19, 1er octobre 1993, p. 2527–2529 ;
Catalogue de la 38e Kunstmesse München 1993, S. 155.
A. Fröhlich-Schauseil, Schenau (1737-1806), Petersberg 2018, p. 220, no. M 35, repr. (titled Un amant déguisé ou Le Mari Jaloux).
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