Lot number 2000 - Auction 150
RUSSISCHER EDELMANN IN JAGDKLEIDUNG MIT FLINTE UND HUND VOR EINEM HERRENHAUS, 1799

LUDWIG GUTTENBRUNN 1750 Vienna - 1819 Frankfurt am Main RUSSIAN NOBLEMAN IN HUNTING ATTIRE WITH RIFLE AND DOG IN FRONT OF A MANOR HOUSE, 1799 Oil on copper. 36 x 26 cm (f. 49.5 x 40 cm). Signed on the upper edge of the tree: "L. Guttenbrunn F. 1799." Partial paint losses and abrasions along the edges caused by framing; minimal paint loss on the figure and background. With frame. Ludwig Guttenbrunn was an Austrian portrait painter who spent most of his life working in Italy and Russia. He studied in Vienna and Rome and gained recognition as a master of intimate portraits and copies of old masters. From the late 1780s, he maintained close contacts with the Russian nobility, especially Count Semyon Vorontsov and Prince Nikolai Yusupov. In 1795, he arrived in St. Petersburg, where he painted members of the imperial family, and in 1799, he moved to Moscow. There, influential families such as the Vorontsovs, Yusupovs, Razumovskys, Kurakins, Naryshkins, and others counted among his patrons.