(Pleß 1818–1897 Semmering)
The Coronation of Rudolph I of Habsburg (1273–1291) in Frankfurt, signed, dated Eduard Engerth Vienna 1846, oil on canvas, 105 x 126.5 cm, framed

Provenance:
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (1833–1896), Vienna;
Donated to his nephew Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802-1878), Vienna;
By inheritance to his son Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria (1842-1919), Vienna/Salzburg;
His sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 14 November 1920, lot 45, ill. pl. 4 (wrongly dated 1840);
Collection of Arnold (1875-1945) and Alice Kolb (1895-1945), Vienna;
their forced auction, Kunst- und Auktionshaus Kärntnerstraße, Vienna, 25 May 1940, lot 255;
Collection of Johann Gürtler (1895-1970), Vienna;
His heirs - Private Collection, Vienna.

The sale is held with the consent of all the heirs of Arnold and Alice Kolb.

Catalogued in:
Rüdiger Engerth, Eduard Ritter von Engerth. 1818–1897. Maler, Lehrer, Galeriedirektor und Kunstschriftsteller. Beiträge zu Leben und Werk, in: Felix Czeike (ed.), Forschungen und Beiträge zur Wiener Stadtgeschichte, vol. 26, Vienna 1994, CR B 20;
Eduard Engerth, Katalog der 229. Sonderausstellung des Historischen Museums der Stadt Wien, 18 September - 16 November 1997, p. 18; there under ill. 2.13 with the smaller oil study to the painting.

Eduard Engerth executed the present work as a young graduate of the Academy on commission from Archduke Charles Ludwig as one of his first non-religious history paintings. It was displayed at the Academy Exhibition in the St. Anna-Hof in Vienna in 1846. Eduard Engerth was Professor and Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and in 1871 he was appointed director of the Imperial-Royal Picture Gallery at the Belvedere. He compiled the first comprehensive catalogue of the painting collection for the new Kunsthistorisches Hofmuseum.