Martin Johann Kremser-Schmidt (Austrian, 1718-1801), Das Testament

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  Martin Johann Kremser-Schmidt (Austrian, 1718-1801)
  
  Das Testament
  Inscribed and dated "Ag. 1796" on the reverse, with a small round Oscar Bondy label with handwritten number "967" affixed to the reverse, also identified on a larger Oscar Bondy label overstamped with "Gaumuseum N.D./ Wien I, Herrengasse 9." and stamped "VEREIN DER MUSEUMSFREUND IN WEIN."
  Oil on panel, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (21.0 x 14.3 cm), framed.
  Condition: Surface grime, fine craquelure, a 1-in. wood strip added to the bottom of the panel.
  
  Provenance: Collection of Joseph Oser, Krems, Austria; through to Oscar Bondy, Vienna and New York; Oscar Bondy Estate Auction (see below), 1949; through to the current private Massachusetts collection.
  
  Literature: Kende Galleries, Inc., New York, The Renowned Painting Collection of the late Oscar Bondy, Sold by Order of Mrs. Elizabeth A. Bondy, New York City, Sale Catalogue, March 3, 1949, p. 32, as Last Will and Testament.
  
  N.B. A Jewish owner of sugar factories in Czechoslovakia, Oscar Bondy (1870-1944) was born and lived in Vienna. Bondy amassed a vast collection of paintings, sculptures, and works of decorative art, focusing on important Old Master paintings and works by Austrian artists of the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection was seized and expropriated with the Anschluss (annexation of Austria) to Nazi Germany in 1938. Mr. Bondy and his wife Elisabeth Anna Bondy (1890-1974) escaped through Switzerland and immigrated to the United States, where he passed away in 1944. In the years following World War II, much of his collection was restituted to his widow and subsequently sold on the New York art market.
  
  The Oscar Bondy estate auction at Kende Galleries, Inc., referenced above included the painting at hand and six other works by Martin Johann Schmidt, called Kremser-Schmidt. The addition of the name "Kremser" reflected that the artist was born in a small village near Krems and lived in the area all his life. He specialized in religious subjects and became a member of the Vienna Academy in 1768.

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