Lot 48: JOHANN  GEORG  PLATZER

PROPERTY  FROM  A  DISTINGUISHED  PRIVATE  COLLECTION
ST  PAUL  IN  EPPAN  NEAR  MERAN  1704  -  1761  ST  MICHAEL  IN  EPPAN
AN  ELEGANT  COMPANY  MAKING  MERRY  OUTSIDE  A  PALACE
oil  on  copper
38  by  51.5  cm.;  15  by  20  1/4    in.

Salzburg, Residenz, Osterreichische Meisterwerke aus Privatbesitz und Stiftsgalerie, 1969, cat. no. 54, reproduced in colour on the cover of the catalogue and (in detail) plate 25.

F. Tessmann, "Johann Georg Platzer, Die Eppaner Malerfamilie Platzer", in Der Schlern, vol. 27, Bolzano 1953, p. 296, fig. 3 (where illustrated with a pendant);
K. Plunger, Johann Georg Platzer, 1704-1761. Der Rokokomaler aus dem Überetsch. Eine Gedächtnisschrift zum 225. Todestag, Eppan 1986, p. 46, cat. no. 6.

Private collection, Vienna, by 1953;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 22 May 1963, lot 47, for £950;
Private collection, Vienna;
From where sold, Vienna, Dorotheum, 14 March 1978;
Anonymous sale ('Property from a South German Private Collection'), London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1991, lot 81, where acquired by the present owner.