JOHANN-JULIUS HEINSIUS, signed and dated 1790

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JOHANN-JULIUS HEINSIUS, signed and dated 1790

A young lady wearing a large white hat tied with blue silk ribbons, her long grey powdered hair falling in long coils to her shoulders, a white muslin fichu with striped silk borders knotted at the décolleté of her sky blue silk dress; nocturnal garden background -- 71 mm diam., faceted silver-gilt mount.

Lot Essay

Johann-Julius Heinsius (1740-1812), peintre de Mesdames de France, has been confused with his brother Johann-Ernst (1731-1794, working for the courts of Weimar and Rudolstadt) until the publication of Hedwig Dauch-Schroeder's thesis Johann-Ernst Heinsius (Jena, 1937), pp. 7-11.

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