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Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder

Haina 1722 – 1789 Kassel

Self portrait with portfolio and pen. Circa 1781

Oil on canvas. 69 × 56 cm (27 ⅛ × 22 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder. Self portrait with portfolio and pen. Circa 1781.

Estimate:

EUR 15,000

 

- 17,000

USD 16,800

 

- 19,000

Sold for:

18,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2016

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 01.12.2016

Information

Oil on canvas. 69 × 56 cm (27 ⅛ × 22 in.). Catalogue raisonné: Flohr 179. Relined. Framed

Comparable object: Johannes Heinrich Tischbein: Selbstportrait im Alter, 1782, canvas, 86 x 71 cm, Museumslandschaft Kassel, inv. no. GK 711
Related literature: Joseph Friedrich Engelschall: Johann Heinrich Tischbein als Mensch und Künstler dargestellt, Nuremberg 1797, p. 119, no. 8 / Marianne Heinz among others (ed.): 3 x Tischbein und the Europäische Malerei um 1800, exh. cat., Kassel, Leipzig and Munich 2005, cat. no. 50, p. 168 In a copy of a rococo frame..

Before 1987 Moritz Landgraf von Hessen (1926–2013) / 1987 Kunsthandel Thomas le Claire, Hamburg / Private collection, Northern Germany

19. Deutsche Kunst- and Antiquitätenmesse Hannover-Herrenhausen, exh. cat., Hanover 1987, p. 133

Kunst und Antiquitäten, issue 2/1987, p. 133 / Anna-Charlotte Flohr: Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder als Portätmaler, with a critical catalogue raisnonné, Munich 1997, G 179, p. 248