Live Auction 5660Old Master and British Paintings
Franz Wolfgang Rohrich (Nürnberg 1787-1834)
Lot 7

Franz Wolfgang Rohrich (Nürnberg 1787-1834)

Portrait of a lady and her son, traditionally identified as Sibylle of Cleves (1512-1554) and one of her sons: the lady, three-quarter-length, in a gold-embroidered dress and a jeweled hat, and the son, half-length, in an ermine-trimmed red coat and a jeweled red hat

Closed30 October 2014

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GBP 25,000

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Franz Wolfgang Rohrich (Nürnberg 1787-1834)
Portrait of a lady and her son, traditionally identified as Sibylle of Cleves (1512-1554) and one of her sons: the lady,
three-quarter-length, in a gold-embroidered dress and a jeweled hat, and the son, half-length, in an ermine-trimmed red coat and a jeweled red hat
oil on panel
24 x 18 ½ in. (61 x 47 cm.)

Specialist note

Franz Wolfgang Rohrich specialised in creating paintings in the manner of Cranach and Dürer, without copying a direct prototype. Various versions of this double portrait in the manner of Lucas Cranach I are known, one of them in the Louvre, Paris (inv. no. 1185). Another version was sold at Sotheby's, Paris, 22 September 2010, lot 44 (€36,750).