Lot 30
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ANTON FRIEDRICH KÖNIG | Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as the sister of Generalin von Duhan, circa 1760

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as the sister of Generalin von Duhan, circa 1760
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal frame
  • 95 by 72 mm.

Provenance

Siegmund Seligmann (d. 1925), Hanover, by 1914;
sale, Geneva, Christie's, 14 May 1985, lot 80 (one of two)

Exhibited

Darmstadt, 1914, no. D. 72 (lent by Siegmund Seligmann);
Hannover, 1918, no. 224 (lent by Siegmund Seligmann)

Literature

Biermann, 1914, vol. II, p. LXXXIII, p. 696, no. 1204, illust.

Condition

Some fading but surface good.
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