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Anton Raphael Mengs (Aussig 1728-1779 Rome) Study for Janus framed: 60.2 x 45.5cm
Anton Raphael Mengs (Aussig 1728-1779 Rome) Study for Janus black chalk on paper on laid paper, watermark fleur-de-lis within a circle, surmounted by a crown and a cross (?) 28.2 x 21.9cm (11 1/8 x 8 5/8in). framed: 60.2 x 45.5cm Footnotes: Provenance With Chaucer Fine Arts, London, 1982, where purchased by the present owner Private Collection, USA Literature S.Roettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs 1728-1779, Munich, 1999, pp. 407-9, 413, cat. no. 307 VZ3, ill The present work is a study for the figure of Janus in Mengs's ceiling fresco Allegory of the Museum Clementinum or The Triumph of History over Time, in the Camera dei Papiri, Vatican Library. We are grateful to Prof. Steffi Roettgen for confirming the attribution from photographs. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
Anton Raphael Mengs (Aussig 1728-1779 Rome) Study for Janus black chalk on paper on laid paper, watermark fleur-de-lis within a circle, surmounted by a crown and a cross (?) 28.2 x 21.9cm (11 1/8 x 8 5/8in). framed: 60.2 x 45.5cm Footnotes: Provenance With Chaucer Fine Arts, London, 1982, where purchased by the present owner Private Collection, USA Literature S.Roettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs 1728-1779, Munich, 1999, pp. 407-9, 413, cat. no. 307 VZ3, ill The present work is a study for the figure of Janus in Mengs's ceiling fresco Allegory of the Museum Clementinum or The Triumph of History over Time, in the Camera dei Papiri, Vatican Library. We are grateful to Prof. Steffi Roettgen for confirming the attribution from photographs. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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