A PAIR OF GEORGE III OCHRE, BLACK AND WHITE-PAINTED PICTURES
Attributed to Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751-1829)
The centres black, ochre and white paint on a partly etched base varnished over, the geometric borders varnished over engravings, with painted square inserts at the corners, one depicting a woman with a casket attended by three handmaidens seated below an apple tree, the trunk of which is entwined by a serpent, with Eros carrying a dove and a handmaiden with a basket below; the other depicting women bathing and at their toilet, with Eros carrying a stole above, both with decorative borders below showing a youthful head wearing a Phrygian cap emerging from the petals of flowers, in modern ebonised reeded frames
One - 45 x 34in. (114.3 x 86.4cm.); the other - 45 x 34½in. (114.3 x 87.6cm.) including frames (2)
A PAIR OF GEORGE III OCHRE, BLACK AND WHITE-PAINTED PICTURES
Attributed to Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751-1829)
The centres black, ochre and white paint on a partly etched base varnished over, the geometric borders varnished over engravings, with painted square inserts at the corners, one depicting a woman with a casket attended by three handmaidens seated below an apple tree, the trunk of which is entwined by a serpent, with Eros carrying a dove and a handmaiden with a basket below; the other depicting women bathing and at their toilet, with Eros carrying a stole above, both with decorative borders below showing a youthful head wearing a Phrygian cap emerging from the petals of flowers, in modern ebonised reeded frames
One - 45 x 34in. (114.3 x 86.4cm.); the other - 45 x 34½in. (114.3 x 87.6cm.) including frames (2)
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