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322

Antoine Pesne (attributed)

Paris 1683 – 1757 Berlin

Duke Georg Albert von Sachsen-Weißenfels-Barby (1695 - 1739). 1721

Oil on copper. 17,7 x 14,4 cm (7 x 5 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Antoine Pesne (attributed). Duke Georg Albert von Sachsen-Weißenfels-Barby (1695 - 1739). 1721.

Estimate:

EUR 12,000

 

- 15,000

USD 16,300

 

- 20,400

Sold for:

11,538 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 215-221

ORANGERIE. Selected Objects, Thursday, 28.11.2013

Information

Oil on copper. 17,7 x 14,4 cm (7 x 5 ⅝ in.). Catalogue raisonné: Not in the catalogue raisonné by Berckenhagen 1958.

Comparable object and related literature: Ekhart Berckenhagen: Antoine Pesne, Œuvre-catalogue, Berlin 1958, cat. no. 125a, p. 138 / Gerd Bartoschek: Antoine Pesne, exh. cat., Potsdam-Sanssouci 1983, cat. no. 26 (SPSG, GK I 3184).

A workshop copy of this half-length portrait, formerly of Schloss Schwedt, was acquired by the State of Saxony Anhalt for Schloß Neu-Augustusburg in Weißenfels.

We would like to thank Gerd Bartoschek, former custodian of paintings at the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam, for the attribution of this painting..

Private collection, Switzerland