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| Keywords: Johann Georg Platzer - The Bath of Diana - 64.37.2 - Minneapolis Institute of Arts.jpg Mythology Rococo 13 3/4 x 16 5/8 x 2 in 34 93 x 42 23 x 5 08 cm outer frame 64 37 2 https //api artsmia org/images/1551/6593/large jpg Q1700481 Oil on copper listed in 1970 catalogue as 'oil type on silver' Counts of Maltzan Schloss Militsch Silesia Polska 1 Galerie Julius Boehler Munich by 1955 ; sold 1955 to Mr and Mrs Walter H Ude Minneapolis MN; gift to MIA in 1964 1 Letter and bill of sale enclosed in curatorial file from Boehler for all Platzer paintings All six paintings come from the collection of Count Maltzan which was kept at Militsch Castle in Selisia sic till the family had to leave it at the end of the war The collection of Platzers was one of the very few things they could save when they trailed to West-Germany The pictures belonged to the Maltzans for many generations and it is believed in the family that Platzer painted them for an ancester sic in his days On the back of the small pictures which are painted on silver and not on copper as I just heard from our restorer you will find the old inventory-numbers of the collection and also old tickets with the inscription Graf Maltzan Militsch which seem to date from the early 19th century The signed small picture Latona is reproduced in Georg Biermann Deutsches Barock und Rokoko edited in 1914 Verlag der weissen Bücher Erik-Ernst Schwabach Leipzig on the occasion of the Jahrhundert Austellung deutscher Kunst in Darmstadt where this and probably its companion as well as other Platzers of the Militsch collection were exhibited The Bath of Diana https //collections artsmia org/index php page detail id 1551 Q20891006 | ||||
