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• Lot n° 112 Johann Georg Dathan (1701-1749) "Wild Huntsman, in ragged clothes" (likely a self-portrait of the artist) Oil on canvas Unsigned; titled on a label affixed to the frame's verso 34" H x 26.5" W Provenance: Siegfried Lämmle, art and antiques dealer, Brienner Straße, Munich, Germany and Los Angeles, CA Estate of Siegfried Lämmle, Los Angeles, CA, circa late 1950s Clifton Hart, San Francisco, CA, acquired from the estate through Walter Lämmle, son of the above, 1957 Private collection, San Marcos, CA Private collection, acquired from the above by descent Other notes: Johann Georg Dathan was a German-born painter of portraits and historical subjects. Dathan was active in Amsterdam between 1730 and 1736, and Mannheim, Germany between 1737 and 1740 and also spent time - and may have been born - in nearby Speyer, Germany. The art dealer Siegfried Lämmle was a noted dealer of sculptures and other decorative arts, and paintings and works on paper. Founded in 1894, his gallery was relocated to Almeida Palais at 51, Brienner Strasse in 1922. Lämmle was an honorary member of the "Münchner Altertumsverein" (Munich Antiquities Society) and was a member of "Vereinigung der Freunde der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung München e. V." (Friends of the Prints Collection). Beginning in 1928, his son Walter worked with him at the family gallery. As a Jewish dealer, Lämmle was targeted during the rise of Nazi power. In August 1935, he was barred from the "Reichskammer der bildenden Künste" (Reich Chamber of Fine Arts) and by the following year, despite their strong objections, the gallery inventory was subject to a forced liquidation sale. The family fled to Los Angeles in 1938 where they joined Lämmle's brother Carl, a successful film producer who had founded Universal Studios in 1912. The brothers, together with Walter, opened "Laemmle Gallery" in Los Angeles where they continued to deal in antiques and fine art for decades. The present work was in the personal inventory of Siegfried Lämmle in Los Angeles and was sold by Walter after his death as part of the settlement of his estate. In the mid-1970s, Clifton Hart, who had purchased the painting from the Lämmle estate in 1957, contacted scholars on the artist or the artistic period. In a letter dated February 22, 1975, Dr. Ernst Emmerling wrote that he considered the painting to be a self-portrait of the artist. Emmerling had written articles on the artist that were published in "Pfälzer Heimat," a scholarly quarterly journal founded in 1949. Christianne Weber, a scholar on Dathan, also considered the painting a self-portrait, according to now-lost correspondence. In around 1985, she published "Der Maler Johann Georg Dathan (1701-1749) Aus Speyer" possibly in the publication "Mitteilungen Des Historischen Vereins Der Pfalz" and may have also reproduced the painting there. In a letter dated September 6, 1977, Dr. Pierre Rosenberg, French art historian, professor and curator and current honorary president and director of the Musée du Louvre, noted that the painting was of "highest quality" when he viewed it in person during a visit to the home of Clifton Hart in 1970. Rosenberg when on to say that if Hart considered donating the painting to the Louvre, he would have it permanently on view in the Baroque gallery. Visual: Overall generally good appearance. Crazing throughout. Stretcher bar creases along each edge. Blacklight: Flecks of touch-up in the figures face, and surrounding areas. Bands of touch-up in the outer edges, primarily in the upper edge and the lower left corner, with four attendant patches verso. Frame: 40" H x 32.5" W x 3.5" D