Antique Oil Portrait Painting of a Gentleman, Gilt Frame, Circa 1840
Antique Oil Portrait Painting of a Gentleman, Gilt Frame, Circa 1840
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A gentleman in a black frock coat and bow-tied stock looks out from a soft brown ground, his side curls in the fashion of the late 1830s and 40s. Pen inscriptions on the stretcher name him as Johann Jakob Jung and add “und seine Frau, geb. Becker,” which tells me he was meant to be read with a wife’s portrait. I can’t confirm the sitter from the painting, and the inscriptions are later, so I’ve recorded them as found. The crested gilt frame carries a printed German framer’s label.
The painting shows fine craquelure throughout, most visible in the face. There are small flaking losses and lifting paint at the hairline and around the eyes and cheek, small scattered losses and pale specks across the brown background, and a small chip in the coat at lower left. The sheen is uneven, with the dark coat reading drier than the flesh. The seller has disclosed previous relining and areas of overpainting, and the extent and location of the overpainting are not mapped here.
The frame shows wear to the gilding throughout, with white gesso exposed where the lower cartouche has chipped. On the reverse the applied crest and cartouche show gesso cracking and lifting at their edges, with a hairline crack in the crest. The lower left corner block shows a small gap at the joint. The stretcher is covered in brown paper that is torn in places, and the hanging plate is screwed to the frame.
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