Property from the Royal House of Hanover

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Lot 570
  • 570

Attributed to Antoine Pesne and studio (1683 - 1757)

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Description

  • portrait of queen elizabeth christine of prussia (1715-1797) , wife of Frederick "the Great", daughter of duke ferdinand albrecht ii of brunswick
  • Oil on canvas
  • 142 by 109 cm.
Three-quarter length, wearing a white dress and red ermine lined robe

Catalogue Note

This portrait type of the Queen appears to be unrecorded, but may perhaps be identifiable with a three-quarter length type listed by Berckenhagen (Antoine Pesne, Berlin 1958, p. 118, no. 84), of which variants are at Schloss Charlottenberg, Berlin, Braunschweig and Brandenburg.

Provenance:
Braunschweig 1911, Inv. Nr. 259;
Blankenburg circa 1929, Inv. Nr. 1180.

Literature:
K. Steinacker, Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Blankenburg, Wolfenbüttel 1922, p.83, no. 43 (as by Pesne).