Lothar Freiherr Pratobevera von Wiesborn as a young boy, facing right in grey coat with green collar, grey waistcoat, white shirt and black cravat, moss-green hat with large green band in his curling dark hair

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JOSEF KRIEHUBER (1801-1876)
Lothar Freiherr Pratobevera von Wiesborn as a young boy, facing right in grey coat with green collar, grey waistcoat, white shirt and black cravat, moss-green hat with large green band in his curling dark hair
signed and dated 'Kriehuber 862' (lower right)
watercolour and pencil on card
rectangular, 11 3/8 x 9 in. (291 x 227 mm.), gilt-wood frame

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By descent to the present owners.

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Lot Essay

Kriehuber executed the portraits of several members of the Pratobevera von Wiesborn family, mentioned in Wolfgang von Wurzbach, Kriehuber. Katalog seiner Portraitlithographien, I, Wien/Bad Bocklet/Zurich, 1955, p. 309, nos. 1718-1720, notably Dr Wilhelm Freiherr Pratobevera von Wiesborn (c.1810-1863) in 1863, possibly the father of the sitter of the present watercolour.

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