Drawing of his wife(?) by Josef Danhauser (Austrian).7" x 8" in a frame 13" x 15"./////////////////////////////////////////////////////Provenance:Krzystof Postawa Estate, Jackson Heights(Queens)New York.Descended directly and kept in the family that descended from Frederick Mont.Frederick Mont was born in Vienna, Austria on 3/26/1894. He died on 8/20/1994 in N.Y.C.He was survived by his wife Anna Mont nee Suchestow. He had no children.Anna Mont died on 7/28/2010 in N.Y.C. She was survived by her sister Lottie Brandel.Lottie Brandel died on 7/20/11 in Jackson Heights, NY and was survived by her husband, Krzysztof Postawa.Krzysztof Postawa died on 7/11/2018 in Jackson Heights, NY.The lawyer for the Postawa Estate consigned the painting to David Killen Gallery for auction.(From the Frick Museum online archives):”Frederick Mont, aka A. F. (Adolf Fritz) Mondschein or Frederick Mondschein, was a New York dealer of Old Master paintings. Before immigrating to New York in the 1930s, Mont, owned and directed Galerie Sanct Lucas (Yeide, Nancy H. The AAM Guide to Provenance Research, AAM, Washington DC., 2001).Frederick Mont sold mostly European old masters mostly to U.S. museums; he was chosen as sole agent by the Prince of Liechtenstein for the sale of masterpieces from his collection; favored his relationships with American dealer Victor Spark (1898-1991) and the Newhouse Galleries.Mont was married at least three times; his first wife, Betty (née Berta Austerlitz, 1897) Mont, was also involved in the art business and Frederick was a partner in her fatherÂ’s, Wilhelm Austerlitz [d. 1940], London art business; his second wife, Eva (née Seiler, 1919–1953), died on vacation with her husband in Naples, Italy; his third wife, Anna S. (1914-2010), bequest some works of art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2010 in memory of Frederick Mont, other works from her bequest entered the collection in 2012.”////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Josef Danhauser (August 19, 1805 in Laimgrube (now a part of Mariahilf or Neubau) – May 4, 1845) was an Austrian painter, one of the main artists of Biedermeier period, together with Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Peter Fendi, among others. His works, not very appreciated in his days, dealt with very moralising subjects and had a clear influence of William Hogarth.Joseph Danhauser was born in Vienna in 1805, the eldest son of sculptor and furniture manufacturer Joseph Ulrich Danhauser and his wife Johanna (née Lambert).He took his first painting lessons with his father and later assisted the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. He studied with Johann Peter Krafft and made his first exhibition 1826.Invited by Johann Ladislaus Pyrker, patriarch of Venice, he visited the city of Doges, where he started to study the Italian masters. He came back to Vienna via Trieste in 1827, visiting Prague. On March 27, 1827 he and his colleague de:Johann Matthias Ranftl molded Ludwig van Beethoven's death mask, roughly 12 hours after his death[4][5] and Danhauser painted a water-colour representing his deathbed. In 1828, he spent some time in Eger, with an invitation of this Hungarian city archbishop Pyrker. He solicited him for some pictures for the gallery of the Archdiocese.[6]After his father's death in 1829, his brothers and he managed his furniture factory during the Biedermeier movement, being the precursors of modern design. That made him put his painting career aside.In 1833, he responded to a second invitation from Eger's archbishop and he painted The martyr of Saint John for a new basilica in the city and he received the Vienna Academy prize for his picture Die Verstoßung der Hagar and he specialised in Genre works. In 1838, he was appointed vice-rector of the Academy and married Josephine Streit, who was the daughter of a physician and with whom he had three children, Josef, Marie and Julie, born in 1839, 1841 and 1843 respectively.Josef Danhauser was appointed professor of historical Painting at the Academy in 1841, but he left this occupation and he travelled around Germany and the Netherlands with the textile maker, art aficionado and art sponsor Rudolf von Arthaber. In this journey, he was very interested in the Dutch School and the format of his works was smaller. He died of typhus in Vienna in 1845. They named a street after him in Vienna in 1862.Works(dimensions given in metres)Rudolf von Habsburg und der Einsiedler in der Kapelle von Lilienfeld (1825), oil on canvas, 0.727 x 0.588, Budapest, Szépművészeti MúzeumWallenstein ersticht sich im Zelte Ottokars - Szene aus Pyrkers Rudolphias (1825), oil on canvas, 0.59 x 0.738, Budapest, Szépművészeti MúzeumOttokar erklärt Rudolf auf dem Turnierplatz mitten im Sturm den Krieg (1825), oil on canvas, 0.603 x 0.741, Wien MuseumKomische Szene in einem Maleratelier(oil on canvas, 1829)Das Scholarenzimmer eines Malers (1828), oil on canvas, 0.40 x 0.52, Vienna, Österreichische Galerie BelvedereKomische Szene in einem Maleratelier (1829), oil on canvas, 0.365 x 0.495, Vienna, Österreichische Galerie BelvedereBildnis eines Knaben (1829), oil on canvas, 0.42 x 0.345, Wien MuseumPorträt Ladislaus Pyrkers, oil on paper, 0.32 x 0.26, Vienna, Österreichische Galerie BelvedereMaleratelier mit Jeanne d'Arc (1830), oil on canvas, 0.78 x 1.035, Budapest, Szépművészeti MúzeumSelbstporträt (1830–1835), oil on wood, 0.233 x 0.20, Wien MuseumDie Schlafenden (1831), oil on canvas, 0.685 x 0.51, Budapest, Szépművészeti MúzeumOttokars Tod (1832), oil on canvas, 1.035 x 0.845, Budapest, Szépművészeti MúzeumDer letzte Kampf zwischen Rudolf und Ottokar (1832), oil on canvas, 0.585 x 0.695, Budapest, Szépművészeti MúzeumPorträt der Frau von Streit, der Schwiegermutter des Künstlers (1833), oil on canvas, 0.92 x 0.715, Linz, Oberösterreichischen LandesmuseenAbraham verstößt Hagar (1833), oil on canvas, Vienna, Österreichische Galerie BelvedereDas Bekenntnis (1834), oil on canvas, 1.28 x 0.96, Wien MuseumDie Frau des Fischers mit ihrem Kinde (1835), oil on wood, 0.41 x 0.49, private collection.Die Mutterliebe(oil on canvas, 1839)Der reiche Prasser (1836), oil on canvas, 0.855 x 1.33, Vienna, Österreichische Galerie BelvedereDer abgewiesene Freier (1836), oil on wood, 0.63 x 0.486, Wien MuseumDie Frau des Fischers am Meeresufer (1837), oil on wood, 0.395 x 0.485, Vienna, Österreichische Galerie BelvedereDer Augenarzt (1837), oil on canvas, 0.94 x 1.25, Wien MuseumDie Klostersuppe (1838), oil on wood, 0.855 x 1.30, Vienna, Österreichische Galerie BelvedereDas Lotterielos (1838), oil on canvas, 0.885 x 0.71, Wien MuseumDie Testamentseröffnung (1839), oil on wood, 0.95 x 1.19, Vienna, Österreichische Galerie BelvedereDer Pfennig der Witwe (1839), oil on canvas, 0.97 x 1.27, Salzbourg, ResidenzgalerieDie Schachpartie (1839), oil on canvas, 1,35 x 1,75, Vienna, Österreichische Galerie BelvedereDie Mutterliebe (1839), oil on canvas, 0.507 x 0.42, Vienna, Österreichische Galerie BelvedereWein, Weib und Gesang (1839), Vienna, Österreichische Galerie BelvedereFranz Liszt, am Flügel phantasierend ("Franz Liszt Fantasizing at the Piano") (1840), Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie[7]Porträt des Klavierfabrikanten Konrad Graf (1840), oil on wood, 0.82 x 0.63, Vienne, Österreichische Galerie BelvedereDie Zeitungsleser (1840), oil on wood, 0.21 x 0.17, Vienna, Österreichische Galerie BelvedereDie Frau vom Meer (1840), oil on wood, 0.51 x 0.39 [8]Die Frau vom Meer(oil on wood, 1840)|* Der Astronom Karl Ludwig Edler von Littrow und Gattin Auguste geb. Bischoff (1841), oil on paperboard, 0.50 x 0.38, Wien MuseumDie Hundekomödie (1841), oil on canvas, 0.603 x 0.658, Wien MuseumDie Romanlektüre (1841), oil on canvas, 0.63 x 0.788, Munich, Galerie GrünwaldMadame Lenormand weissagt der Kaiserin Josephine die Trennung von Napoleon (1841), oil on wood, 0.74 x 0.83, lost pictureDas Kind und seine Welt (1842), oil on wood, 0.226 x 0.29, Wien MuseumDie kleinen Virtuosen (1843), oil on paperboard, 0.40 x 0.365, Vienna, Österreichische Galerie BelvedereDas A-B-C (1843), oil on wood, 0.385 x 0.355, Wien MuseumDie Brautwerbung (1844), oil on wood, 0.45 x 0.57, private collection."

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