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Johan Pasch, attributed to

(Sweden, 1706-1769)
Estimate
25 000 - 30 000 SEK
2 420 - 2 910 EUR
2 770 - 3 330 USD
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42 000 SEK
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Johan Jinnerot
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Johan Pasch, attributed to
(Sweden, 1706-1769)

Allegory of the Four Elements - Water

Executed around 1753. Canvas mounted on panel, 78 x 78 cm.

Provenance

The Plomgren House at Kornhamnstorg, corner of Triewaldsgränd, Stockholm, features a door lintel that was previously part of a suite depicting allegories of the four elements, which were removed when the house was renovated at the end of the 19th century.
Professor Carl Magnus Groth (1831-1908) and his wife Elin (1849-1921), subsequently inherited by their daughter Britta (1884-1958).
Mrs. Britta Gauffin, née Groth, married to Dr. Axel Gauffin (1877-1964), curator at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
Bukowski Auktioner, Stockholm, auction 456, Christmas Auction, 8-11 December 1987, cat no. 250. (Guillaume Taraval, in the manner of)

Exhibitions

Charlottenborg, Kopenhagen, "Udstillingen af svensk kunst fra det 18. aarhundrede", September-October 1921.

Literature

Udstillingen af svensk kunst fra det 18. aarhundrede, Charlottenborg, København, september-oktober 1921, omnämnd under Guillaume Thomas Taraval "Amoriner, Dörstykke, Tilh. Dr. phil Axel Gauffin, Stockholm" nr 41 eller nr 42.
Axel Gauffin (red): "Svensk sjuttonhundratals konst", SAK publ XXXI, 1923, jämför med bilden på dörröverstycket "Amoriner" på sidan 14.
Albin Roosval (red): "Svenska hem i ord och bilder", årgång 1924, Stora Lundby i Sorunda, Södermanland, hos intendenten och fru Axel Gauffin, omnämnd på sidan 12 och avbildad på sidorna 10 och 11.
Ingrid Böhn-Jullander, "Johan Pasch och rokokons dekorativa måleri i Sverige", 1987, omnämnd på sidan 70.
Ing-Mari Danielsson, "Den bildande smaken - målade dekorationer hos borgerskapet i frihetstidens Stockholm", 1998, omnämnd på sidan 150, upptagen i katalogen, kat nr 17, sid 198.