WIELAND, Matthias. 
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Proof Copy of Illuminations on the Occasion of the Wedding of Maximilan Joseph III of Bavaria to Princess Maria Anna of Saxony WIELAND, Matthias. Wahre Abbildung der Beleichtung des Land-Haußes zu München. Welches bey höchster Vermählung S: Regierend Churfürstl: Durtl: [sic] in Bayrn Maximilian Ioseph mit der Pollnisch- und Chur-Sachßisichen [sic] Princesin Frauen Maria Anna, Churfrtl: Durtl: vorgestöhlet worden den 17.t July annô MDCCXLVII. Munich, engraved by Matthias Wieland, signed in the plate, 1747. £1500 Broadside (330 x 500mm), copper engraving, inscribed lower right M: Wieland scul. Mon. Munich, 1747; trimmed to or beyond the plate mark, on the right touching the framing lines. Two penetrating ink stains on the verso, small abrasion in the lower border, but overall very clean and crisp, printed on strong paper.
Illuminated festive broadside engraving for the wedding of Prince-Elector Maximilian Joseph III to Maria Anna of Saxony, showing the nightly illuminations on the occasion. This is a proof copy: the central medallions for small portraits of the couple are still empty, at the foot of the print there is a scale for the precise insertion of the presumably separate portrait plates. Maximilian III Joseph (1727 - 1777), also known by his epithet "the much beloved" was a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Bavaria from 1745 to 1777. His marriage to his first cousin Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony in 1747 remained childless. He was the last of the Bavarian branch of the House of Wittelsbach and his early death in 1777 caused problems in the succession of the Wittelbach and eventually resulted in the War of Bavarian Succession. At a slightly later date there was fireworks display at the Nymphenburg palace, which Wieland depicted on an oversized (more than 1000mm) copperplate engraving. (Ornamentstichsammlung Berlin, no. 2912; digitised). He describes himself there as the fireworker (Tormentarius). Both sheets are recorded in Maillinger, Bilder-Chronik I, nos. 976/977, in Pfister (Kunstsammlung, no. 2650), the present one in its final state. The recording of the celebration of the wedding forms part of official art in the Renaissance and the Baroque with a clear political purpose. It made the contemporary viewer see and understand pageantry as an instrument and manifestation of power. Provenance: Small crowned monogram stamp of the Franz Joseph Graf von Enzenberg Collection on the reverse (Lugt 845), auctioned in March 1879 by Wawra in Vienna. The broadside is not listed separately in the catalogue and was presumably part of the bundles listed at the end. Maillinger, Bilder-Chronik I, nos. 976/977; Pfister (Kunstsammlung Monacensia, Bavarica, no. 2650) only the present one in its final state; British Museum (1859,1210.1103) for the large fireworks broadside.
2000,- EUR
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Sachgebiete: Bayern, Einblattdrucke, Ephemera, Guckkastenblätter, Kupferstich
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