Portrait Of A Young Lady By Gabriel Cornelius Ritter Von Max (1840-1915)

Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max (1840-1915)

Title: A portrait of a young lady

Medium: Oil on canvas

Period 1870-1900

Provenance- Benedict Gallery label to verso Private collection London UK. Signed upper right

Overall measurements with the frame are 39 cm x 35 cm x 5 cm and the painting measuring 27 cm x 20 cm

A beautiful small oil on oak board portrait of a young lady wearing a burgundy shaw by the Austria painter Gabriel Von Max. The tactile study show small and delicate touches to the sitters hair and the soft and subtle use of light so often typical of this important Austrian painter.

Gabriel von Max (1840 Prague – 1915 Munich) was into a family of artists,He trained in his home town of Prague, continuing his training in Vienna.

He moved to Munich where he studied at the Academy of Art under Carl Theodor von Piloty from 1863-7. and later between 1855 and 1858 at the Prague Academy of Arts with Eduard von Engerth.

Like his fellow students Hans Makart and Franz Defregger, n 1878 Max was appointed professor of history painting at the Munich Academy,

Von Max was to emerge as one of the most successful painters of the Wilhelminian period. Max enjoyed considerable success during his lifetime and could command almost any price for his paintings.

Von Max's, popularity as an artist extended to both sides of the Atlantic although the artist himself (in his time undoubtedly one of the most eccentric personalities in Munich artistic circles)–was publicly eclipsed by his own oeuvre..

Today his work remains popular and it is highly collectible with Von Max's paintings also being held in some important private collections and in art galleries throughout the World including the following gallery holdings :


Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg - The Matyr on the cross

Neue Pinakothek, Munich - The Anatomist

Neue Pinakothek, Munich -Ecstasy

(National Gallery, Prague-The Seeress of Prevorst

Metropolitan Museum of Art- The last token

Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art- Light

The National Museum, Warsaw - Tannhäuser

Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin - The sisters

Some prices achieved at auction and more recent paintings at auction by the artist and the record achieved at auction was in 2015 where his study of monkeys turned " a visit to the artists studio " achieved 298,000 USD, at Sotherbys New York.

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/17921/lot/304/ sold £14,400 inc.

List of recent auctions of the artists work :

https://www.invaluable.com/artist/max-gabriel-xh4ngmy7ed/sold-at-auction-prices/


NeumeisterJune 26, 2024Munich, Germany lo-lot/gabriel-cornelius-von-max-1738-c-5ae4f94aff.

Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden
April 28, 2024 , Germany Lot 216

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/gabriel-cornelius-ritter-von-max-639-c-9574ce4a95

Dorotheum April 25, 2024 Vienna, Austria

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/von-max-gabriel-austrian-1840-1915-study-of-a-you-381-c-61b494c9bc

Davidson AuctionsAugust 20, 2023Sydney, Australia lot 381

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/gabriel-von-max-1840-prag-muenchen-1915-dezember--73-c-f1c4950b50

Karl & Faber May 17, 2024 Munich, Germany Lot 73

https://kunkelfineart.de/en/artists/max-gabriel-von/

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