Portrait of Philippine, Countess of Hessen-Kassel, three-quarter-length, in a silver dress with embroidery, seated by a table with a crown on a cushion

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Johann Heinrich Tischbein I (Haina 1722-1789 Kassel)
Portrait of Philippine, Countess of Hessen-Kassel, three-quarter-length, in a silver dress with embroidery, seated by a table with a crown on a cushion
oil on canvas
139.8 x 112.4 cm.

Provenance

with Albrecht Neuhaus, Würzburg, where bought by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The present composition is a reduced version of the state portrait (194 x 134.2 cm.) in the Schloss Wilhelmsthal near Kassel. A third portrait (86 x 71 cm.), however full-length, is in a private collection, (for both see A.-Ch. Flohr, Johann Heinrich Tischbein der Ältere (1722- 1789) als Porträtmaler, Munich, 1997, pp. 187-8, nos. G43-4).

The present sitter wears an wristband bearing a miniature portrait of her husband Count Friedrich II of Hessen Kassel. Tischbein has painted over twenty portraits of the Count.

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