Both these views are taken from engravings by Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder (1666 – 1742) with scenes from the War of the Spanish Succession.

The War of the Spanish Succession lasted from the death of Charles II, the last of the Spanish Hapsburg kings, in 1700 until peace was concluded in 1714. It provided a rich source of battles celebrated in paintings, tapestries and engravings after numerous artist such as Rugendas and Paul Decker (1685-1742).[i]

Condition:
Minor localised losses. Stained wood frames

Provenance:
Collection of Gisela and Prof. Wolfgang Steiner
Lempertz, Hinterglas Gemälde, 16 November 2023, lot 16

Literature:

Steiner 2015
Wolfgang Steiner, … eine andere Art von Malerey: Hinterglasgemälde und ihre Vorlagen 1550–1850 (Berlin-Munich 2012), illus. 60 f.

Steiner 2015
Wolfgang Steiner, Goldglanz und Silberpracht: Hinterglasmalerei aus vier Jahrhunderten, Catalogue of the exhibition at the Schaezlerpalais der Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg, (11 September to 15 November 2015), no. 23 f.

Manners 2024
‘E & H Manners, ‘Decorators on Ceramics and Glass’, 2024, no. 12

Exhibited:
Schaezlerpalais der Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg, 2012
Schaezlerpalais der Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg 11 September to 15 November 2015

References:

Cassidy-Geiger 1989
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, ‘Repraesentatio Belli, ob successionem in Regno Hispanico…: A Tea Service and Garniture by the Schwarzlot Decorator Ignaz Preissler’, Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 24 (1989)

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[i] See Cassidy-Geiger 1989 for a service on Meissen porcelain attributed to Ignaz Preissler in the Metropolitan Museum of Art with scenes after Paul Decker.

Price: £15,000.00