Franz Anton von Scheidel Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Franz Anton von Scheidel Art Value Price Guide

Jul. 04, 2024
Two sheets of studies of corals
Est: £6,000 - £8,000
Franz Anton von Scheidl Vienna 1731 - 1801 Two sheets of studies of corals both inscribed and numbered upper right: 139. and 145. both pen and brown ink and watercolour, over traces of black chalk each 515 by 365 mm (2)
Sotheby's
May. 04, 2023
FRANZ ANTON VON SCHEIDEL (1731 - 1801)
Est: $500 - $1,000
"Portrait of a Dalmatian" watercolor. signed. 17 x 22 1/2 inches (overall)
John McInnis Auctioneers
Dec. 02, 2022
Scheidel, Franz Anton von: Der Schuppenpanzer einer Hawksbill'schen Meeres-Schildkröte
Est: €2,600 - €3,500
Der Schuppenpanzer einer Hawksbill'schen Meeres-Schildkröte. -- Aquarell über Bleistift. 36,6 x 50,5 cm. Am oberen Bildrand eigenh. in brauner Feder betitelt: "Testudo Imbricata. Schuppenschild". Wz. J. Honig & Zonen. -- -- -- Als Naturalienmaler spezialisierte sich Franz Anton von Scheidel auf faszinierend getreue, meist großformatige Darstellungen aus der Tier- und Pflanzenwelt. Er war einer der gefragtesten Illustratoren für die enzyklopädischen Werke der Naturwissenschaft, die bei dem gebildeten Publikum ihrer detailgetreuen Bildtafeln wegen sehr populär waren. Obwohl auch vorliegendes Blatt aus einem solchen Album entstammen dürfte, wie die alten Heftspuren am Oberrand nahelegen, löst sich Scheidel bei diesem Aquarell doch von der Tradition der klassischen Naturaliendarstellung. Der vom Tier isoliert dargestellte Schuppenpanzer ist schräg von links oben gesehen, die bizarre Form mit den gezackten Kanten erschließt sich erst auf den zweiten Blick. Der Bildgegenstand entfaltet als urzeitliches Relikt eine eigene Magie. In dieser Hinsicht entspricht das Werk den Zeichnungen des rund 70 Jahre nach ihm geborenen Aloys Zötl, dessen Aquarelle von den Surrealisten eben wegen dieser über den Gegenstand hinausgehenden eigenen Realität geschätzt wurden. - Die Hawksbill'sche Meeres-Schildkröte, die heute übrigens vom Aussterben bedroht ist, wurde erstmals 1766 von dem schwedischen Zoologen Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) in der 12. Ausgabe seiner Nomenklatur Systema Naturae als "Testudo imbricata" aufgeführt. Heute trägt sie den zoologischen Namen "Ertmochelys imbricata". -- -- - Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. -- - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.
Bassenge Auctions
Oct. 18, 2022
Franz Anton Von Scheidel (Austrian, 1731-1801)
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Franz Anton Von Scheidel (Austrian, 1731-1801) comprising Alatae perfectae: Vienna Port Scene; Studies of Petrified Wood and Studies of Shells (four works) gouache and ink on paper Largest example: 19 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches (sight). Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, Old Master Drawings, 20 January 1982, Lots 133, 217, 236 and 259 Christie's, 11 January 1989, Lots 217 (Studies of Petrified Wood), 217A (Studies of Shells) and 218 (Vienna Port Scene)
Hindman
Feb. 05, 2022
Attributed to Franz Anton von Scheidel
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
(Austrian, 1731-1801) Five watercolors of snails, scallops, oysters, unsigned, watercolor on wove paper, three with "J. Whatman" 18th century watermark, each sheet approximately 8-7/8 x 12-7/8 in. matching gilt wood frames, approximately 16 x 19-1/2 in.
Brunk Auctions
Dec. 11, 2019
FRANZ ANTON VON SCHEIDEL (1731-1801) Six études de cornes pierre noire, aquarelle, rehaussé de gomme arabique, filigrane fleur-de-lys dans un blason couronné avec initiales 'JH&Z;'et 'JHONIG & ZOONEN' 36.2 x 52 cm. (14 ¼ x 20 ½ in.) (6)
Est: €15,000 - €20,000
FRANZ ANTON VON SCHEIDEL (1731-1801) Six études de cornes inscrit 'Um die hälfte größer.', 'Bison', 'Capra Dorcas. Afrikanischer Ziege', 'Capra Ammona. Sibirischer Ziege' (en bas au centre) pierre noire, aquarelle, rehaussé de gomme arabique, filigrane fleur-de-lys dans un blason couronné avec initiales 'JH&Z'et 'JHONIG & ZOONEN' 36.2 x 52 cm. (14 ¼ x 20 ½ in.) (6)
Christie's
May. 14, 2019
ATTRIBUTED TO FRANZ ANTON VON SCHEIDEL (AUSTRIAN 1731-1801) LE CHEVAL 27.5cm x 38.5cm (11in x 15in)
Est: £500 - £700
ATTRIBUTED TO FRANZ ANTON VON SCHEIDEL (AUSTRIAN 1731-1801) LE CHEVAL Inscribed, watercolour 27.5cm x 38.5cm (11in x 15in)
Lyon & Turnbull
Jan. 30, 2019
Franz Anton von Scheidel Austrian, 1731-1801 Studies of Coral: Two
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
Franz Anton von Scheidel Austrian, 1731-1801 Studies of Coral: Two Brown ink and wash with watercolor on paper Each approximately 20 x 14 inches (51 x 35.5 cm) Provenance: John Mitchell & Son, London C The Estate of Barbara Wainscott
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Mar. 28, 2017
FRANZ ANTON VON SCHEIDEL (AUSTRIAN, 1731-1801) Animal Studies (eight works)
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
FRANZ ANTON VON SCHEIDEL (AUSTRIAN, 1731-1801) Animal Studies (eight works) some variously inscribed watercolor and pencil on laid paper each 22 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (57.2 x 69.9 cm. ) (8)
Christie's
Mar. 02, 2017
* Von Scheidel (Franz Anton, 1731-1801). Ewe and Rram,
Est: £300 - £400
watercolour over black chalk, titled in pencil in the artist's hand to lower margin, lightly spotted and toned, 31.5 x 47.5cm (12.5 x 18.75ins), mounted, framed and glazed, inscribed on backboard 'Sotheby's 22/11/73' - Quantity (1)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Jan. 28, 2017
18th Century Original Watercolor of a Polar Bear
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
L'ours de Mer. Franz Anton von Scheidel (17311801). Original sketch for Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes. Watercolor on paper. 12 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches visible, 17 x 23 1/2 inches framed
Arader Galleries
Dec. 10, 2015
FRANZ ANTON VON SCHEIDEL | Study of four snakes: Muraena Coeca and Coluber Atropos
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
Pen and grey and brown ink and watercolour over black chalk; bears inscription, upper left: R. Colsmann The snakes identified in Latin and German
Sotheby's
Jul. 08, 2015
Franz Anton von Scheidel (Vienna 1731-1801) A study of Shells (
Est: £7,000 - £10,000
Franz Anton von Scheidel (Vienna 1731-1801) A study of Shells (Halbe Fl³gelschnecken) together with a work by the same hand of snakes (2)
Bonhams
Mar. 26, 2014
Franz Anton von Scheidel (?), 1731 - Vienne, 1801 Étude de coquillages : quatre strombes etÉtude de coquillages : quatre strombes et...
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
Franz Anton von Scheidel (?), 1731 - Vienne, 1801 Étude de coquillages : quatre strombes et Étude de coquillages : quatre strombes et un haliotis Plume et encre brune, aquarelle gouachée Signée ' Francis Scheidel / del (...)' en bas à droite Dans un cadre en bois et stuc doré orné de motifs de coquillages dans les angles, travail d'époque romantique 'STUDIES OF SHELLS', WATERCOLOUR AND GOUACHE, BY F. A. VON SCHEIDEL h: 37 w: 26,50 cm Commentaire : Franz Anton von Scheidel, artiste viennois renommé pour ses illustrations d'histoire naturelle, se spécialise dans ce domaine après sa rencontre avec le scientifique Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. En 1765 ce dernier illustre lui-même de ses propres croquis à la demande de l'empereur d'Autriche un ouvrage collectant plantes et animaux exotiques. Mais c'est à von Scheidel qu'il propose d'illustrer ses deux ouvrages à venir ; 'Flora Austriaca' (cinq volumes, 1773-1778) et 'Hortus Botanicus Vindobonenis' (trois volumes, 1770-1776), pour lesquels notre artiste, en sus des centaines de dessins croqués dans sa carrière, exécute non moins de 300 dessins. Notre page, probablement issue des différents albums aujourd'hui dispersés (notons ceux vendus à Munich en 1981 (1) et à New York en 1982 (2)), représente de façon extrêmement attentive et réaliste quatre strombes entourant un haliotis, et constitue un bel exemple de la maîtrise de von Scheidel dans le champ de la conchyliologie. Ses travaux ouvrent ainsi une période riche pour l'illustration botanique et zoologique en Autriche au XVIIIe siècle. 1. Vente anonyme ; Munich, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 25 novembre 1981. 2. Vente anonyme ; New York, 20 janvier 1982, n°s 133 à 276.
Artcurial
Jun. 13, 2012
A George II stained walnut and parcel gilt trumeau mirror inset with watercolours attributed to Franz Anton von Scheidel (1731-1801)
Est: £5,000 - £8,000
The triple divided plate with a carved and sanded slip with four various watercolour designs within a moulded frame, 139cm wide, 98.5cm high (54.5" wide, 38.5" high).
Bonhams
Mar. 31, 2008
Franz Anton von Scheidel(Vienna 1731-1801) A
Est: €1,800 - €2,400
Franz Anton von Scheidel(Vienna 1731-1801) A piglike animal, bodycolours on vellum, 10.5 x 16.5 cm, the surface roughened, mounted, unframed, (Sch)
Dorotheum
Nov. 14, 2006
FRANZ ANTON VON SCHEIDEL (?) 1731 - 1801 VIENNA
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
STUDY OF A HARE measurements note 352 by 488mm inscribed in black chalk, lower centre: Lepus timidus - and with the German translation bears erased inscription in black chalk, upper right; watercolour over black chalk, with touches of gum arabic, with a slight sketch of a resting hare on the verso
Sotheby's
Jul. 05, 2006
f - FRANZ ANTON VON SCHEIDEL (?) 1731 - 1801 VIENNA
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
AN ANTEATER measurements note 341 by 466mm inscribed in pen and brown ink: Myrmecophaga jubata. and a further classification in German pen and grey ink and watercolour over black chalk
Sotheby's
Jul. 05, 2006
FRANZ ANTON VON SCHEIDEL (?) 1731 - 1801 VIENNA
Est: £25,000 - £35,000
A FOLIO VOLUME OF WATERCOLOURS OF BIRDS measurements note each page 505 by 363mm most sheets inscribed in black or brown ink with identifications in latin and/or german 115 sheets: 21 double-pages, of which 3 are folding; watercolour over pencil, some with touches of gum arabic; the binding calf-backed marble boards, the spine gilt in compartments, with red morocco lettering-pieces stamped: scheidtl/III. Classe/Hühnerartige/Vögel, with red edges to the paper NOTE Like lot 97, this is a highly important voume of natural history illustrations by this celebrated Austrian painter, and assistant to N.J. Jacquin at the Schönbrunn Gardens, Vienna. Here, however, Von Scheidel illustrates birds, rather than fish. The majority of the artist's subjects in this volume are game birds, some European and some exotic, and mostly drawn to actual size. In the case of larger birds such as the turkey, the peacocks and some of the pheasants, this has necessitated his making the drawing on a double-sized sheet, which has been folded so as to fit into this folio volume. After the game birds come a number of watercolours of domestic poultry, and then some of doves, crows, waders, and various other birds, including a small penguin. Several of the drawings bear inscriptions identifying the birds, often in Latin and German together, and a few indicate where the artist saw the birds in question, and when; the dates on the drawings range from 1769 to 1772. Clearly, Von Scheidel drew many of these birds from specimens kept in private menageries; those mentioned by name include the collections of Franz Hannibal, Graf von Thurn, and of Rudolph, Graf von Abensperg und Traun, on his estate at Pockflüss. One drawing, of a chicken, is actually inscribed to indicate that it was drawn from the life by Hr. Scheidl, Mahler in Wien, 1772. [Mr. Scheidl, artist in Vienna, 1772].
Sotheby's
Jul. 05, 2006
f - FRANZ ANTON VON SCHEIDEL (?) 1731 - 1801 VIENNA
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
AN ARMADILLO measurements note 355 by 501mm inscribed in pen and black ink: Dasypus Armadill pen and grey ink and watercolour over black chalk NOTE Other drawings of armadillos by von Scheidel have passed through the sale rooms, see for example, London, Christie's, 19 April 1994, lot 188.
Sotheby's
Jul. 05, 2006
FRANZ ANTON VON SCHEIDEL (?) 1731 - 1801 VIENNA
Est: £25,000 - £35,000
A FOLIO VOLUME OF WATERCOLOURS OF FISH measurements note each sheet 507 by 366mm most sheets inscribed in black or brown ink with identifications in latin and/or german 80 sheets; watercolour over pencil, some with touches of gum arabic; the binding calf-backed marble boards, the spine gilt in compartments, with red morocco lettering-pieces stamped: scheidtl/fische, with red edges to the paper NOTE Natural history drawings, watercolours and illustrated books were produced in considerable quantities from the late 16th century onwards, and particularly in the post-Linnaean drive to classify the entire natural world. Most of these were, however, devoted to subjects such as plants, fruits, birds and mammals, and compendia devoted to fish are actually relatively rare. One important early fish book is the set of 68 plates published by Albert Flamen in 1664, and in the 18th century Jacob Theodore Klein published his epic, five-part Historiae piscium (1740-49), but these were both monochrome publications. The first elaborate colour plate publication on fish seems to have been Marcus Elieser Bloch's, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische, Berlin 1782, which contained over 400 colour plates. The present volume may well have been executed around the same time as, or even before, that groundbreaking publication, and is a highly unusual, and very beautiful, early example of a series of elaborate watercolours of a wide range of fish, both local and exotic. Von Scheidel was a leading Austrian natural history painter, who assisted N.J. Jacquin, director of the Emperor's menagerie and gardens at Schönbrunn, in Vienna. Von Scheidel made several thousand drawings of plants, birds and mammals for Jacquin, as well as many works for other patrons, including, presumably, this remarkable fish book. For an album of his bird illustrations, see lot 99.
Sotheby's
Mar. 23, 2006
Franz Anton Scheidel (1731-1801)
Est: €1,500 - €2,000
Deux lémuriens inscrit 'Lemur tardigradus. mas et femina.' craie noire, aquarelle, filigrane fleur-de-lys dans un cartouche surmonté d'une couronne C&I HONIG 359 x 500 mm.
Christie's
Jan. 24, 2006
Franz Anton Scheidel (1731-1801 Vienna)
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
A lion and lioness and a couple of hominids in a tropical landscape signed, dated and inscribed 'Naturliche Abildung deren Virfüssigen Thieren, von Franz Anton Scheidel Naturallien Mahler. in Wien 1788' black chalk, watercolor, watermark device 19 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. (502 x 352 mm.)
Christie's
Jul. 15, 2004
Scheidl (Franz Anton von, 1731-1801) Studies of South African Patella Limpets including Patella cochlear, Patella concolor, Patella granatina,
Est: £2,500 - £3,500
Scheidl (Franz Anton von, 1731-1801) Studies of South African Patella Limpets including Patella cochlear, Patella concolor, Patella granatina, Patella longicosta, Patella oculus, a clam and other shells, pencil and watercolour, numbered '59', watermark 'iv', 511 by 365mm.
Bonhams
Oct. 21, 2003
* FRANZ ANTON VON SCHEIDEL 1731-1801 STUDIES OF HORNS: SIX WORKS
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
MATERIAL/MEDIUM each watercolor on paper DETAILED DESCRIPTION each inscribed, depicting various species PROVENANCE Sold, Old Master Drawings including a group of watercolors by Franz Anton Von Scheidel, Sotheby's New York, January 20, 1982, lots 166, 167, 179, 180, 184, 262, each illustrated
Sotheby's
Nov. 19, 2002
Franz Anton von Scheidel (1731-1801)
Est: $10,850 - $15,500
A Monitor lizard inscribed 'Lacerta Monitor. Wachhalte' (upper centre) and 'R: Cols.monn.' (upper left) pencil and watercolour, heightened with gum arabic, framed and glazed 362 x 504mm. [ With :] An Iguana inscribed 'Lacerta Iguana. Kammleguan' (lower centre) pencil and watercolour, framed and glazed 352 x 495mm. A FINE PAIR OF FINISHED WATERCOLOURS FROM THE ACCOMPLISHED NATURAL HISTORY ARTIST FRANZ VON SCHEIDEL. Franz von Scheidel worked in Vienna with Nicolaus Joseph Jacquin (1827-1817), producing botanical watercolours for the latter's Flora Austriaca and Hortus botanicus Vindobonensis. In addition, Scheidel produced work for Friedrich Martini's huge work on shells Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet. The present drawings appear to have originally been part of a bound collection of zoological drawings. Another drawing from the same collection (of an Ermine) was sold in London in April 1989 (Sotheby's 25-27 April 1989 lot 25). 'With three exceptions, all the genera of [the Iguana]... family belong to the New World... where they occur as far south as Patagonia, while extending northward... as far as California and British Columbia' ( Encyclopedia Britannica 1911, XIV, p.295). The family of the Monitor lizard (containing 46 members) is more widespread, and representatives are found in Africa, Asia and Australasia. (2).
Christie's
Jul. 09, 2001
Franz Anton von Scheidl (1731-1801)
Est: $2,115 - $3,525
A coiled serpent pencil, bodycolour, heightened with gum arabic, watermark Strasburg lily 360 x 505 mm. SALESROOM NOTICE PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS LOT IS ILLUSTRATED IN THE CATALOGUE AS LOT 209.
Christie's