Live Auction 14445Villa Wunderkind: Selected Works from the Private Collection of Wolfgang Joop
Circle of Carl Gustav Pilo (Runstuna 1711-1792 Stockholm)
Lot 18

Circle of Carl Gustav Pilo (Runstuna 1711-1792 Stockholm)

Portrait of Louisa, Queen of Denmark (1724-1751), half-length, in a gold embroidered white silk dress set with precious stones and pearls, with an ermine-lined red cape, pearl earrings and headdress

Closed18 October 2017

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Circle of Carl Gustav Pilo (Runstuna 1711-1792 Stockholm)
Portrait of Louisa, Queen of Denmark (1724-1751), half-length, in a gold embroidered white silk dress set with precious stones and pearls, with an ermine-lined red cape, pearl earrings and headdress
oil on canvas, unlined
52 1/8 x 41 ½ in. (132.3 x 105.4 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 24 March 1999, lot 21, as 'After Carl Gustav Pilo' (as one of two in the lot).

Specialist note

After the circa 1747 picture held in the Glorup collection, Denmark (Carl Gustav Pilo I Danmark, exhibition catalogue, Nationalmuseum Stockholm, 1985, p. 38, no. 6). An autographed version of the picture on canvas, is in the Castle of Eutin, in the collection of the Dukes of Oldenburg (H. Börsch-Supan, Höfische Bildnisse des Spätbarock, exhibition catalogue, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, 15 September-30 October 1966, p. 136, no. 50).

The sitter is the daughter of George II who married the King of Denmark, Friedrich V (1723-1766), in 1746.