Lot 291: Franz Ignaz Flurer (1688 - 1742 Graz)

A southern port, oil on canvas, 96 x 130 cm, framed, (Wo)

Certificate: Univ. Prof. Horst Schweigert, 7 March 2001 From the dating 1755 discernable in the two bales of cloth in the front and from the inscription C Prof. Schweigert concludes that the painting may have formed part of Flurer's estate and that it was dated and inscribed by the painter's widow Anna Maria Crischan after her husband's death in 1742.
Literature: comp. Ulrike Kraus-Müller, Franz Ignaz Flurer, ein Barockmaler in der Steiermark, exhibition catalogue, Stadtmuseum Graz 1983, figs. 23, 25, 28