Johann Georg Ziesenis - Fürst Karl August Friedrich von Waldeck-Pyrmont
auction 931, Lot 1424
SPECIAL AUCTION HIDDEN TREASURES FROM THE HOUSE OF WÜRTTEMBERG
on 30 March 2022
Johann Georg Ziesenis
Fürst Karl August Friedrich von Waldeck-Pyrmont
Differenzbesteuerung
Johann Georg Ziesenis
1716 Copenhagen - 1776 Hanover
Carl August Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Oil on canvas. 89.5 x 70.5 cm. Relined. Restored. Minor damage to frame (109 x 90 cm).
Transcribed inscription probably from the original "Charles Auguste Prince Regnant de Waldeck. J. G. Ziesenis pinxit 1748", numbered 31 in pencil and excerpt from a machine-made inventory sheet also with number 31 verso.
Cf. Schrader, Karin, Der Bildnismaler Johann Georg Ziesenis (1716-1776). Leben und Werk mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog (= Göttingers contributions to art history, volume 3). Münster 1995 (also Göttingen, dissertation 1990), page 164 f., Catalogue Raisonné numbers 52 and 52a: two slightly smaller versions of the portrait, number 52 formerly inscribed "J. G. Ziesenis 1748" verso.
We would like to thank Dr. Karin Schrader, Bad Nauheim, for her kind support during cataloguing.
