Eduard von Steinle

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Eduard von Steinle
1810-1886
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1860-1870
Graphite.
11 9/16 x 7 15/16 inches (293 x 201 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.240

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Notes: 

As suggested in an email from Michael Venator (April 10, 2021), this sheet is closely related to a drawing by Lorenzo Costa at the Albertina in Vienna (ca. 1494; inv. 7506). An even closer copy of the Albertina sheet was previously with the dealer Joseph Fach in Frankfurt (see Catalogue 37 (1986), no. 50).

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Monogrammed at lower center, in graphite: ES.

Provenance: 
Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerst, Schloss Friedstein, Styria, Austria; Hill-Stone, Inc., New York; from which acquired in 2003; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Associated names: 

Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 363, repr.
The Thaw collection of master drawings : acquisitions since 2002. New York : Morgan Library & Museum, 2009, no. 37, repr.

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