Johannes NIESSEN

(Cologne 1821 - Cologne 1910)

Portrait of a Roman Man (Giacomo Orlandi of Subiaco)

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Black chalk.
Signed and dated Niessen / 1847 at the lower right.
Further inscribed Giacomo Orlandi di Subiaco along the bottom of the sheet.
292 x 223 mm. (11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.)

ACQUIRED BY THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES.
 

Provenance

Said to be from an album formerly in the collection of Prince Johann Georg of Saxony, Dresden (the album stamped with his mark [Lugt 1466])
Private collection, Germany
H. W. Fichter Kunsthandel, Frankfurt, in 2008
Bernd Schultz, Berlin
His sale, Berlin, Grisebach, 25 October 2018, lot 50
Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg.
 

Johannes NIESSEN

Portrait of a Roman Man (Giacomo Orlandi of Subiaco)