ANKER, ALBERT "Death of Peter Martyr (copy after... Lot 14

ANKER, ALBERT "Death of Peter Martyr (copy after Titian)". Oil on canvas, on painting board, 72,5x44,5 cm (LM) Provenance: Marie Quinche-Anker, Neuchâtel; private property, Neuchâtel (1962); private property, Basel (1985); private collection, Switzerland. Exhibition: Albert Anker (1831-1910). Jahrhundertausstellung, Kunstmuseum, Bern, June 20-August 23, 1931, no. 12. Literature: Max Huggler/Hugo Wagner/Katalin von Walterskirchen, Albert Anker. Katalog der Gemälde und Ölstudien, Bern 1962, no. 459 (with illustration); Sandor Kuthy/Therese Bhattacharya-Stettler, Albert Anker. Werkkatalog der Gemälde und Ölstudien, Basel/Bern 1995, p. 76, no. 49 (with illustration). The offered work is dated to the year 1861. In 1861/62 Albert Anker undertook an extended trip to Italy, which took him to Milan, Venice and Florence, among other places. In Venice, he visited the Basilica Santi Giovanni e Paolo, where he recorded Titian's 1528 altarpiece as a pencil drawing. This served as a model for the present copy of the painting, while Titian's original was destroyed by fire in 1867. http://www.dobiaschofsky.com/d106--10014.html