Georg David Matthieu (Berlin 1737-1776 Ludwigslust)

Portrait of Luise Friederike, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, neé Duchess of Württemberg-Stuttgart (1722-1791), bust-length, with a lace bonnet: a sketch

Details

Georg David Matthieu (Berlin 1737-1776 Ludwigslust)
Portrait of Luise Friederike, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, neé Duchess of Württemberg-Stuttgart (1722-1791), bust-length, with a lace bonnet: a sketch
oil on canvas, oval
48.5 x 36.7 cm.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 24 March 1999, lot 17.

Exhibited

Schwerin, Staatliches Museum, Malerei des XVIII. Jahrhunderts, July-September 1954, no. 235.
Schwerin, Staatliches Museum, Georg David Matthieu (1737-1778) - Malerei. Pastelle. Grafik, 1978, no. 42.

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Lot Essay

The present lot is to be regarded as a study for the shaped wooden garden decoration depicting the court dwarf Hartwig Kremer, holding a painting of his mistress, of 1776, in the Staatliches Museum Schwerin. Pendant portraits of the sitter with her husband of 1766 by the same artist are in the Castle Schwerin.

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