Portrait of Elisabeth-Friederike Sophie, Duchess of Württemberg, née Countess of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1732-1780), standing half length, wearing an embroidered blue silk dress, a lace wrap with an ermine-lined red cape and a white silk scarf around her head, flowers in her hair

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Anna Rosina Matthieu-Lisiewski (1713/16-1783)
Portrait of Elisabeth-Friederike Sophie, Duchess of Württemberg, née Countess of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1732-1780), standing half length, wearing an embroidered blue silk dress, a lace wrap with an ermine-lined red cape and a white silk scarf around her head, flowers in her hair
with inscription on the reverse of the unlined canvas erroneously identifying the sitter as Countess Franziska von Hohenheim (1748-1811), who married Duke Carl II Eugen von Wurttemberg (1728-1793) in 1784.
oil on unlined canvas
82.5 x 65.7 cm

Provenance

Louis Rath, Stuttgart, 1912 (inscription on the reverse of the frame)
Anon. Sale, Spik, Berlin, 12 March 1959, lot 113A, ill.

Literature

E. Berckenhagen, "Anna Rosina Lisiewska-Matthieu-de Gasc" in Niederdeutsche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte, XXXI, 1992, pp.98/9, no33, ill.

Sale room notice

Please note that another version of the present lot is in Bayreuth

Lot Essay

The sitter was the daughter of Friedrich, Count of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and married Carl II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg (1728-1793) on 26 September 1748.
A version of the present picture is in the Castle Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart, inv. n05354 (see A. von Pfister, Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg und seine Zeit, I, 1907, pp.52/53, ill.).

Sold with a certificate by L. Meyer dated 8 July 1998.

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