Property from a Private Collection
Anton Wilhelm Tischbein
Portrait of Elisabeth von Breitenbach, wearing a blue dress, seated in a landscape
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September 20, 12:28 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Anton Wilhelm Tischbein
Haina 1730–1804 Hanau
Portrait of Elisabeth von Breitenbach, wearing a blue dress, seated in a landscape
signed and dated lower left: WT. f 1802.
oil on canvas
unframed: 70.3 x 57.2 cm.; 27 5/8 x 22 1/2 in.
framed: 79 x 65.5 cm.; 31 1/8 x 25 3/4 in.
In the collection of the owner's great-grandfather, Germany, by the 1920s;
Thence by descent.
This painting is a second version of the portrait of Elisabeth von Breitenbach, dated to circa 1775, in the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.1 Though traditionally ascribed to Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1722–1789), more recently Dr Marianne Heinz has attributed this portrait to his younger brother, Anton Wilhelm Tischbein (written correspondence, 25 January 2018). We are grateful to Dr Heinz for her help with the cataloguing of this lot and for her endorsement of the attribution.
1 Inv. no. 2021; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Katalog der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart alte Meister, Stuttgart 1962, p. 222.
