Lot. 115002186. Jan Chelminski. Parforcejagd. 1876.Oil on canvas. Signed, dated and inscribed “München” lower left. 85 x 184 cm (33.4 x 72.4 in). Verso of stretcher with inscriptions and numbers, as well as with an old adhesive label inscribed “5261”. [CB].

PROVENANCE: Collection Barlow, Munich (verso of stretcher with inscription)
Galerie Hugo Helbing, Munich, auction collection Barlow, 17 June, 1911, lot 28, (with black and white illu. in cat., plate 6).
Galerie an der Wagmüllerstraße, Munich, owner Jakob Scheidwimmer, previously Hugo Helbing.
Galerie Josef Engel, Munich (acquired from Scheidwimmer, presumably between 1941 and 1948).
Private collection Southern Germany (acquired in 1952 from Galerie Josef Engel, with copy of receipt).

LITERATURE: Cf. Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 1st vol., no. 3 “Parforcejagd aus der Zeit Ludwig XV.”.

Essay

A circle of young artists, predominatly of Polish origin, began to form around Josef von Brandt in Munich as of 1875, the so-called ‘Brandt-Schule’. Besides Jan Chelminski, Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski and Franz Roubaud were also part of this group. Illustrations of historical Cossack- and Tatar warriors, horse markets and hunting scenes made the artists successful for a long time. Additionally, the Polish artists had a faible for scenes from Napoleon’s campaigns. Around 1870 Maksymilian Gierymski revived the historical genre of cousing in Rococo costumes, over the following years his artist friends Wierusz-Kowalski and Chelminski also took this subject on. A work by Chelmisnki that resembles the one offered here was acquired by King Ludwig II. at the ‘Münchner Internationalen Kunstausstellung’ in 1879.

Estimate 12,000 euro. Ketterer. 05/26/16. Sold 97.500 euro ($110,174)