Live Auction 2875European Noble and Private Collections
Georg David Matthieu (Berlin 1737-1776 Ludwigslust)
Lot 828 A

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

Closed14 December 2011

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EUR 2,750

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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.

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

Specialist note

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.