GERMAN SCHOOL, circa 1750

Details

GERMAN SCHOOL, circa 1750

Philippine-Charlotte, Duchess of Brunswick, seated on a blue-upholstered gilt-wood chair, her right elbow resting on a brown fur muff on a grey-painted wood table, wearing a salmon-coloured silk dress with brown embroidery and white lace sleeves, a white lace-set brown fur choker around her neck, her grey-powdered curled hair embellished with an aigrette, wearing pearl bracelets; rectangular -- 91 x 74 mm, parcel-gilt wood frame.

Lot Essay

This miniature is inspired by the large scale oil painting by the hand of Johann Georg Ziesenis. Philippine-Charlotte (1716-1801), wife of Duke Charles I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, was the fifth child of King Frederick William I of Prussia (the famous Soldatenkönig) and his wife Sophie-Dorothea of Hannover.

More from Miniatures

View All