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Karl August Friedrich Fürst zu Waldeck und Pyrmont (1704-1763), facing right in gilt breastplate, white coat and lace cravat, ermine-bordered red cloak draped over his right shoulder, wearing the red moiré sash and breast star of an order, long powdered wig en queue, his left hand holding a plummed helmet with viser; sky and cloud background
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G. DE LEHENNER, 1761
Karl August Friedrich Fürst zu Waldeck und Pyrmont (1704-1763), facing right in gilt breastplate, white coat and lace cravat, ermine-bordered red cloak draped over his right shoulder, wearing the red moiré sash and breast star of an order, long powdered wig en queue, his left hand holding a plummed helmet with viser; sky and cloud background
signed and dated on the reverse 'G: de Lehenner: pinxit. 1761.'
vellum laid down on card
rectangular, 3 3/8 x 2 13/16 in. (85 x 72 mm.), gilt-metal frame with reeded borders
Karl August Friedrich Fürst zu Waldeck und Pyrmont (1704-1763), facing right in gilt breastplate, white coat and lace cravat, ermine-bordered red cloak draped over his right shoulder, wearing the red moiré sash and breast star of an order, long powdered wig en queue, his left hand holding a plummed helmet with viser; sky and cloud background
signed and dated on the reverse 'G: de Lehenner: pinxit. 1761.'
vellum laid down on card
rectangular, 3 3/8 x 2 13/16 in. (85 x 72 mm.), gilt-metal frame with reeded borders
Literature
U. Thieme/F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, Leipzig, 1928, vol. 22, p. 578 (sitter unidentified).
Exhibited
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Bildnisminiaturen aus niedersächsischem Privatbesitz, 1918, no. 230 (sitter unidentified, lent by Dr. Leo Catzenstein, Hanover).
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