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| Keywords: Johann Georg Platzer - The Pleasures of the Seasons Winter - 62.7 - Minneapolis Institute of Arts.jpg Allegory Rococo 15 x 21 1/2 in 38 1 x 54 61 cm panel 19 3/4 x 26 1/2 in 50 17 x 67 31 cm outer frame 62 7 https //api artsmia org/images/1494/2560/large jpg Q1700481 Oil on copper 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 1962 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 Pleasures of the Seasons Winter https //collections artsmia org/index php page detail id 1494 Q20890921 | ||||
