Follower of Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779)

Portrait of Frau Johann Alexander Thiele, née Dorothea Sophia Schumann, Frau Axt (1718-1777), with jewels in her hair

Details

Follower of Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779)
Portrait of Frau Johann Alexander Thiele, née Dorothea Sophia Schumann, Frau Axt (1718-1777), with jewels in her hair
pastel
20½ x 16 1/8 in. (52 x 40.8 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's Monaco, 2 July 1993, lot 216 as Alessandro Longhi, inconnue.
Anonymous sale; Christie's New York, 30 January 1998, lot 251.
Anonymous sale; Neumeister Munich, 2 July 2009, lot 518.

Literature

Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London, 2006, illus. p. 377.

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Lot Essay

This pastel is a copy of the famous Mengs portrait of Dorothea Schumann, currently in the Dresden Museum, inventory number P168. The Mengs pastels in Dresden were the subject of widespread copying in the late 18th century, and many such as this were of a very high standard.

Christie's are grateful to Neil Jeffares for his assitance in cataloguing this lot.

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