Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
(Vienna 1793-1865 Hinterbrühl)
Portrait of Friedrich Eltz (1782-1855) dressed in black, signed, dated Waldmüller 1836, verso labels of the Österreichischen Galerie, oil on panel, 31.5 x 26 cm, framed
Provenance:
Collection of Theodor von Hörmann (1840-1895), Graz;
his sale, S. Kende & L. Schidlof, Vienna, 16 December 1918,
lot 407;
Collection of Josef Honig (1877-1930), Vienna;
By inheritance to Valerie Honig (1885-1942), Vienna, until 1940;
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, inventory no. 3899, 1940/42;
Decision of restitution to the heirs of Valerie Honig on 28 June 2006;
Handover to the heirs in 2023.
Exhibited:
Waldmüller memorial exhibition, Salzburg, 1953, p. 83, no. 71.
Catalogued and illustrated in:
Rupert Feuchtmüller, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. Leben. Schriften. Werke, Vienna, Munich 1996, p. 467, no. 492;
Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war. Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens, Vienna 2003, p. 522.