Historians surprised
Secret revealed in restored painting
Domquartier has received two new donations from private collections. Following their restoration, the two portraits revealed a small but not insignificant secret at the bottom of the painting.
"He could have sold the two paintings for a high price. But decided instead to donate the two portraits to the Domquartier," says museum director Andrea Stockhammer - referring to patron Edgar Hertlein. The university professor decided to bequeath two paintings from his family estate to the Salzburg museum. The paintings belonged to the patron's family for 200 years.
The paintings, which were created by the well-known portrait painter Peter Krafft in Vienna, will now be added to the collection of the Residenzgalerie. The historical paintings, which were extensively restored before being hung in the museum, depict the publisher couple Domenico and Anna Maria Artaria.
The restoration work also revealed a previously well-kept secret. Only now have the painter's signature and date on the lower edge of the painting become visible again. They disproved the previously assumed date of 1815. The two paintings were actually created in 1816 and 1818 as a marriage portrait.
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