Lot 290: Josef Platzer (Prague 1751 - 1806 Vienna)

The interior of a Baroque palace or dungeon, oil on canvas, 44 x 35 cm, framed, (Wo)

Provenance: private collection, Vienna
Josef Platzer was specialised in scenes set in dungeons and in historical nocturnal scenes. He drew his inspirations from Piranesi's Carceri, but also from similar interiors by the two Steenwycks, Andrea del Pozzo, and the Galli Bibbiena. In Vienna he worked for the Imperial court and the nobility. In 1795 he was appointed Imperial chamber painter. In the Österreichische Galerie in the Vienna Belvedere there are two similar compositions by this artist.
Literature: comp. Elfriede Baum, Katalog des Österreichischen Barockmuseums in Wien, 1980, vol. II, pp. 562/63, figs. 397, 398.