M. Meling after Augusto Nicodemo

Portrait of Joseph Doruwslasky (born 1738), a Polish dwarf, standing small full length by a table in an interior, wearing light blue costume with lace chemise and wig, holding a box, a dog at his side

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M. Meling after Augusto Nicodemo
Portrait of Joseph Doruwslasky (born 1738), a Polish dwarf, standing small full length by a table in an interior, wearing light blue costume with lace chemise and wig, holding a box, a dog at his side
signed, dated and inscribed with the name of the sitter on a document lower right Monsieur/Monsieur Joseph Doruwslasky/Nain Polonis/apartenant a Madame la Comtesse/Humieska, age de 22 ans/an pasant/a Carlsruh l'annee 1760/copie de M.Meling Peint A. Nicodemo and with the crowned inventory number 634 on a label on the reverse and with the inventory numbers 4734 (in blue) and 1217 (in red and in black) on the stretcher
oil on canvas, unframed
99.4 x 74.7 cm

Exhibited

Schwerin, 1954, n0123.

Sale room notice

Please note that the entry should read: Joseph Melling (1724-1796) after Augusto Nicodemo and that the name of the sitter is Boruwslasky.

Lot Essay

The artist appears to be unrecorded. The prototype by Nicodemo, who was active in Naples in 1780, is in an untraced private collection.
Nicodemo, now a forgotten master, must have been a not unobscure portrait painter in his time. He was befriended by Philipp Hackert, whose portrait by Nicodemo is now in the Staatlichen Museen, Berlin.

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