Lot 411
  • 411

Johann Gottlieb Becker

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Johann Gottlieb Becker
  • Portrait of Count Johann Casemir von Schlieben and His Five Daughters
  • oil on canvas
  • 67 by 60 3/4 in.; 170.2 by 154 cm.

Provenance

By descent in the family of the sitters until 2011.

Condition

The canvas is newly lined. The surface of the work is in overall good condition. There is pressed craquelure. There are some noticable repaired tears.
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Catalogue Note

Count Von Schieben is depicted  with his five daughters: Albertina Eleonora, Maria Wilhelmina, Friederika Amalia, Henriette Adolfine and Johanna Sophia.