A.F. Häbert (active circa 1739)

Portrait of a Queen of Prussia, standing three-quarter length on a terrace, wearing an ermine-lined brown velvet dress with lace chemise and an ermine-lined blue cape with a pearl necklace and bracelets

Details

A.F. Häbert (active circa 1739)
Portrait of a Queen of Prussia, standing three-quarter length on a terrace, wearing an ermine-lined brown velvet dress with lace chemise and an ermine-lined blue cape with a pearl necklace and bracelets
signed and dated A.F.Häbert.Pinx.1739 on the reverse of the unlined canvas and with the inventory numbers 777 (in red) and 4707 (in green) on the stretcher
oil on unlined canvas, unframed
143.3 x 109.8 cm, with strips of canvas of 10 cm added to the top and strips of circa 3 cm added to the right and the left

Exhibited

Schwerin, 1954, n0148.

Lot Essay

The artist appears to be unrecorded; he seems to have been a follower of Antoine Pesne (1683-1757), who was active as a court painter in Berlin from 1713 onwards. Compare with his portrait of Sophia Dorothea, Queen of Prussia (1687-1757), of circa 1728, which exists in two versions (G. Poensgen, ed., Antoine Pesne, 1958, p.176, n0s h & ha).

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