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Emanuel Graf von Ludolf

1823–1898 · Austria

Count Emanuel Ludolf (1823-1898), a diplomat and collector who made 46 Cypriot objects available to Vienna between 1873 and 1883, by sale and by gift; the entries seen give no findspot.

Biography

Count Emanuel Ludolf (1823-1898) made 46 Cypriot objects available to Vienna between 1873 and 1883. The Kunsthistorisches Museum's 1999 catalogue calls him "the well-known collector" who "served as a diplomat in the Orient" and describes the group as primarily pottery and terracotta statues¹. Part came to the Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie by purchase in 1873, and part to the imperial Antikensammlung as gifts in 1879 and 1883¹.

The catalogue entries for his pieces include a White Painted flask given in 1883¹, Base-Ring and Proto-White Painted vessels¹¹, a Base-Ring female idol¹ and a Cypro-Archaic II kore¹, all given in 1879, and a limestone head of a young man sold in 1873 and taken over by the Antikensammlung in 1940¹. Each is entered as from Cyprus without further detail, and the catalogue does not say how he acquired them. A Wikidata entry for a diplomat of the same name and dates gives his birth in Linz on 3 October 1823 and his death in Vercelli on 17 May 1898².

Life and work

1873
Sold Cypriot objects (including the limestone head of a young man, I 1607) to the Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie, Vienna; the head passed to the Antikensammlung in 1940.
ViennaBernhard-Walcher et al. 1999, cat. 83, p. 179
1879
Gave the imperial antiquities collection pottery and terracottas from Cyprus (inv. IV 1534-1536, IV 1532, V 1342, V 1334, among others).
ViennaBernhard-Walcher et al. 1999, cat. 22
1883
Gave a Middle Cypriot II White Painted flask (IV 1734) to the Antikensammlung.
ViennaBernhard-Walcher et al. 1999, cat. 13, p. 69

Objects

Flask with string-holes, White Painted Ware, Middle Cypriot II
From Cyprus, no further detailsKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (Antikensammlung) IV 17341883Bernhard-Walcher et al. 1999, cat. 13, p. 69
Jug, Base-Ring I Ware
From Cyprus, no further detailsKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (Antikensammlung) IV 15341879Bernhard-Walcher et al. 1999, cat. 22, p. 81
Askos with horse's head protome, Proto-White Painted Ware (LC IIIB)
From Cyprus, no further detailsKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (Antikensammlung) IV 15361879Bernhard-Walcher et al. 1999, cat. 29, p. 95
Female idol, Base-Ring Ware
From Cyprus, no further detailsKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (Antikensammlung) V 13421879Bernhard-Walcher et al. 1999, cat. 48, p. 124
Kore figurine, Cypro-Archaic II
From Cyprus, no further detailsKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (Antikensammlung) V 13341879Bernhard-Walcher et al. 1999, cat. 66, p. 151
Head of a young man, limestone, Cypro-Archaic II
From Cyprus, no further detailsKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (Antikensammlung) I 16071873Bernhard-Walcher et al. 1999, cat. 83, p. 179

Sources

1.A. Bernhard-Walcher, G. Dembski, K. Gschwantler, V. Karageorghis (1999). Die Sammlung zyprischer Antiken im Kunsthistorischen Museum / The Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum.
2.“Emanuel Graf von Ludolf (1823-1898)”. Wikidata / GND 117281107. Online