Lot 3089: Anton Graff, Portrait of the writer Gustav Adolph von Amman (1743–1772)

Anton Graff, Portrait of the writer Gustav Adolph von Amman (1743–1772), Oil on canvas, 1762, Signed and dated on the reverse lower right: AGraff Pinx 1762, 40 x 31 1/2 in., Relined with the exception of the signature

Berliner Sammler-Tradition, exh. cat., published by the Bezirksamt Tiergarten, Berlin 1950 (Haus am Lützowplatz), no. 167.

Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff. Leben und Werk, Berlin 1967, no. 1545, p. 389, ill. p. 389

Collection of the copperplate engraver Johann Friedrich Bause (1738–1814), Leipzig (gift of the artist) / Bause family collection, Leipzig / 1900 collection Lord Mayor Carl Bruno Tröndlin (1835–1908), Leipzig / collection of the merchant family Koch, Leipzig / 1936 collection Frieda Hinze, Berlin / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin. Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: inventory list of pictures (1950), no. 188, previous owner Koch family, 700 RM / typed document regarding provenance, circa 1950 / letter from Dr. von Knorre, Kunstsammlungen Augsburg, to Frieda Hinze, 7 June 1971