Lot Essay
We are grateful to L. Meyer of the Kunsthistorisches Archiv, Munich, for confirming the identification of the sitter.
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Portrait of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792), aged 26, standing half length by a table, wearing a gold embroidered red jacket and waistcoat, lace shirt and wig, holding a book in his right hand
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Friedrich Wocher (1726-1799)
Portrait of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792), aged 26, standing half length by a table, wearing a gold embroidered red jacket and waistcoat, lace shirt and wig, holding a book in his right hand
signed and dated Frider:Wocher pinx/Aö.1778. and inscribed with the sitters age AEtatis Sua 26 on the reverse of the unlined canvas
oil on unlined canvas
83.5 x 66.2 cm
Portrait of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792), aged 26, standing half length by a table, wearing a gold embroidered red jacket and waistcoat, lace shirt and wig, holding a book in his right hand
signed and dated Frider:Wocher pinx/Aö.1778. and inscribed with the sitters age AEtatis Sua 26 on the reverse of the unlined canvas
oil on unlined canvas
83.5 x 66.2 cm