LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

45.83 in. (116.40 cm.) (height) by 35.00 in. (88.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed '464' (lower right)

Literature:

‘Catalogue des tableaux envoyés de Vienne qui se trouvent actuellement dans la Galerie du Grand Chambellan Prince Alexander Michailoviez Galitzin’, 1793, MS, Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Archives, Fund 1, opis' VI-A, delo 144, p. 10, no. 58, ‘Portrait – sur toile – Jean Kopetzky – 3 pieds 8 pouces x 2 pieds 9 pouces’. Inventory of the collection of Prince A.M. Galitzine, MS, Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Archives, Fund 1, opis' VI-A, delo 122, p. 15r., no. 79, ’58. – Jean Kupetsky – Portrait d’un peintre’. Catalogue des tableaux, statues, vases et autre objets, appartenant l'Hôpital de Galitzin, Moscou, de l'imprimerie N.S. Vsevolojsky, Moscow, 1817, p. 17, ‘Koupetsky – Le portrait du Peintre lui-même’.

Provenance:

Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Galitzine (1721-1793), Ambassador of the Russian Empire, Vienna, 1761-1792, by whom bequeathed with the entirety of his collection to his brother, Prince Alexandre Mikhailovich Galitzine (1723-1807), Vice-Chancellor of the Imperial Court, at his residence in Moscow, by whom bequeathed with the entirety of the collection to the Galitzine Hospital, Moscow, Prince Serge Mikhailovich Galitzine the Elder (1774-1859), in the picture gallery of the Galitzine Hospital, Moscow; (probably) sale, Galitzine Hospital, Moscow, 1818, lot 464, as 'a self-portrait by Kupetsky'.