Cavalry Skirmish
August Querfurt (Wolfenbüttel 1696 - Wien 1761)
Lot-No. 6
Oil/canvas, 42 x 58 cm, slightly rest., relined. - Prof. Giancarlo Sestieri, Rome, has kindly identified the artist. - Battle a. hunting painter, initially trained by his father Tobias Q., thereafter by G.Ph. Rugendas I in Augsburg, in 1743 he was in Vienna where he became honorary member of the academie in 1752, by dealing with the leading battle painter of his time like Ch. Parocel a. A.F. van der Meulen but also Ph. Wouwerman he developed his characteristic style. - Mus.: St. Petersburg (Eremitage), Dresden, Wien, Venedig, Stockholm (Nat.-Mus.), Cambridge (Fitzwilliam- Mus.), New York u.a. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit u.a.
August Querfurt: Cavalry Skirmish
August Querfurt (Wolfenbüttel 1696 - Wien 1761)
Cavalry Skirmish
Lot-No. 6
Oil/canvas, 42 x 58 cm, slightly rest., relined. - Prof. Giancarlo Sestieri, Rome, has kindly identified the artist. - Battle a. hunting painter, initially trained by his father Tobias Q., thereafter by G.Ph. Rugendas I in Augsburg, in 1743 he was in Vienna where he became honorary member of the academie in 1752, by dealing with the leading battle painter of his time like Ch. Parocel a. A.F. van der Meulen but also Ph. Wouwerman he developed his characteristic style. - Mus.: St. Petersburg (Eremitage), Dresden, Wien, Venedig, Stockholm (Nat.-Mus.), Cambridge (Fitzwilliam- Mus.), New York u.a. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit u.a.