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Herman Hendrik de Quiter the Elder

Ostfriesland 1628 – 1708 Kassel

Hereditary Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (1676-1751), later King of Sweden and Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. 1703

Oil on canvas. 275 × 260 cm (108 ¼ × 102 ⅜ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Herman Hendrik de Quiter the Elder. Hereditary Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (1676-1751), later King of Sweden and Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. 1703.

Estimate:

EUR 60,000

 

- 80,000

USD 73,800

 

- 98,400

Sold for:

62,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2018

ORANGERIE, Thursday, 31.05.2018

Information

Oil on canvas. 275 × 260 cm (108 ¼ × 102 ⅜ in.). Signed and dated lower right: H.H.De Quitter fecit Cassel a.O. 1703. Catalogue raisonné: RKD The Hague, no. 20312. Relined.

Companion piece: Herman Hendrik de Quiter: Landgrave Carl of Hesse-Kassel on horseback 1701 (276 x 260 cm), private collection, Berlin (auction 7095: New York, Sotheby's, 30. January 1998, cat. no. 4).

Perhaps Library in the Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (until 1909) / perhaps the Conference Room of the Regional Commtitee in the Ständehaus, Kassel, together with the equestrian portrait of Landgrave Karl of Hesse-Kassel (1902–1923) / Jaime Ortiz-Patiño (1927–2013), Geneva / his wife Beatriz Antenor Patiño (1911–2009), New York (until 1998) / Galerie Neuse, Bremen (1998–1990) / Private Collection, Schloss Rammelburg (Saxony-Anhalt), later Berlin (1990–2015) / Private Collection, Berlin

Hans Philippi: Landgraf Karl von Hessen-Kassel. Marburg, 1976, S. 603 / Auction 7095: Important Old Master Paintings. New York, Sotheby's, 30th January 1998, cat.-no. 3, p. 16 / Juliane Stephen: Abraham Mignon malt Blumen für Jérôme. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 7th February 1998, p. 47 / Friederike Sophie Drinkuth: Der moderne Auktionshandel. Köln/Weimar/Wien, 2003, p. 113–117 and ill. 11, p. 276

Perhaps in conjunction with Johann Rudolf Füssli: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Zürich, 1810, Vol. 2, Part 5, p. 1190 („des König Friedrichs von Schweden und des Landgrafen Carl von Hessen“) / Aloys Holtmeyer: Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler im Regierungsbezirk Cassel. Vol. II, Part 2. Kassel, 1923, p. 459 (dort eines mit Maßen 2,33 x 1,46 m)