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ATTRIBUTED TO FRANZ XAVIER KARL PALKO (BRESLAU 1724- A version on copper of Christ and the Children of Zebedee is in the collection
1767 MUNICH) of the Belvedere Museum, Vienna. According to Bruno Bushart (loc. cit.),
Christ in the house of Simon the Pharisee; and Christ and the the pendant to the Vienna painting, also on copper, was sold at Sotheby's,
children of Zebedee London, some years before the present pair appeared at Dorotheum.
oil on canvas
22√ x 18¿ in. (58.2 x 46 cm.), each a pair
$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale; Dorotheum, Vienna, 2 November 1976, lots 113 and 114, as
'Ascribed to Franz Sigrist.'
[The Property of a Private Collector]; Christie's, New York, 10 January 1990, lot
20, as 'Franz-Xaver-Karl-Palko.'
The Collection of Khalil Rizk, New York.
LITERATURE:
E. Baum, Katalog des Österreichischen Barockmuseums im Unteren Belvedere
in Wien, Vienna and Munich, 1980, p. 547, under no. 391, as probably autograph
replicas.
B. Bushart, 'Der lyrische Maulbertsch', Festschrift Kurt Roassacher Imagination
und Imago. Zum 65. Geburtstag von Kurt Rossacher und zum zehnjährigen
Bestandsjubiläum des Salzburger Barockmuseums, Salzburg, 1983, p. 39, note
9, as probably not by the artist.
M. Meine-Schawe and M. Schawe, Die Sammlung Reuschel: Ölskizzen des
Spätbarock, Munich, 1995, p. 116, under no. 15, note 4, as a replica.
P. Preiss, František Karel Palko: ?ivot a dílo malíre sklonku stredoevropského
baroka a jeho bratra Františka Antonína Palka, Prague, 1999, p. 288, nos. OK - 5
and OK - 6, as after Franz Karl Palko.

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