拍品 46
  • 46

ANTON FRIEDRICH KÖNIG | Portrait of Crown Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia (1751-1805), circa 1775

估價
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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描述

  • Portrait of Crown Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia (1751-1805), circa 1775
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal frame;signed lower left: König
  • 108 by 83 mm.

來源

Possibly the Grand-Dukes of Hesse-Damstadt;
Milena, Baroness von Bassus, by 1912;
sale, Lucerne, Galerie Fischer, 13 June 1956, lot 735;
Ernst Holscheiter (1878-1962), Meilen;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 June 1986, lot 25

展覽

Munich, 1912, no. 345

出版

Michaelis, 2012, p. 107, fig. 3

Condition

One of two minor touches of restoration in the blue of the dress in the margins. Overall in good order, although certainly somewhat faded.
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拍品資料及來源

The sitter was the second daughter of Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. In 1769, she married Friedrich Wilhelm II, later King of Prussia (1744-1797).