Johann Bernard Hermann Post (1870-1970) after Antoine Pesne

Portrait of Eleonore Freifrau von Keyserlingh (1709-1758) playing the lute in a landscape garden

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Johann Bernard Hermann Post (1870-1970) after Antoine Pesne
Portrait of Eleonore Freifrau von Keyserlingh (1709-1758) playing the lute in a landscape garden
oil on canvas, unframed
120.2 x 85.5 cm

Lot Essay

The original, executed circa 1745, is in Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin (H.Börsch-Supan, Der Maler Antoine Pesne: Franzose und Preusse, 1986, p.121, plate 86). The sitter was married to Dietrich Freiherr von Keyserlingh, who was a close friend of King Frederick the Great of Prussia.

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