Lot 199
199
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JOHANN-JULIUS HEINSIUS, signed, circa 1795

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JOHANN-JULIUS HEINSIUS, signed, circa 1795

A gentleman with powdered hair and dark sidewhiskers, wearing a sky-blue-lined aubergine-brown coat, a white waistcoat and a knotted white cravat; landscape background -- 72 mm diam., gilt-metal frame.

Lot Essay

Johann-Julius Heinsius (1740-1812), peintre de Mesdames de France, has been confused with his brother Johann-Ernst (1731-1794, working for the courts of Weimar and Rudolstadt) until the publication of Hedwig Dauch-Schroeder's thesis Johann-Ernst Heinsius (Jena, 1937), pp. 7-11.

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