| DATE | Unknown |
| AUTHOR | Jan Kupecky (1667 - 1740) Bazin - Hungary |
| MEDIA | Oil on canvas |
| SIZE | 89,5 x 72 cm |
| LOCATION | Hungary - Budapest - Museum of Fine Arts |
| NOTES | A book of engravings of Kupecky's paintings published in Nüremberg in 1745, contains an engraved copy of this picture. This mezzotint engraving identifies the represented person as: "R. Donauer, Pict. Moscov". Thus the painting depicts the painter Gottfried Donauer or Danhauer who was of Swabian origin and a clockmaker like his father. He went to Italy to study music and painting with Bombelli. Later he moved to Russia where he died in 1737 in St. Petersburg. Kupecky, while returning from Rome, became acquainted in Venice with the portrait painter Sebastiano Bombelli, and may have met Donauer in Venice. Thus the picture probably was made at the beginning of Kupecky's career, in Italy. However, some copies of Vogel's engraving call the picture The Allegory of Hearing. Hence it is possible that the painting belonged to a series representing The Five Senses. As we do not know any authentic portrait of Donauer, and Kupecky's authentic Italian works have hardly survived, the identification and dating must remain open to question. |
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