Johann Heinrich Tischbein d. Ä. - Der Künstler mit seiner ersten Frau Marie Sophie am Spinett
auction 375, Lot 291
FINE ART
on 29 March 2017
Johann Heinrich Tischbein d. Ä.
Der Künstler mit seiner ersten Frau Marie Sophie am Spinett
Differenzbesteuerung
TISCHBEIN THE OLDER, JOHANN HEINRICH
1722 Haina - 1789 Kassel
The Artist and his first Wife Marie Sophie at the Spinet
Verso a later inscription (visible under infrared light) Originalgemälde von Johann Heinrich Tischbein, Direktor und Geh. Rat in Cassel mit seiner ersten Frau 1756.Oil on canvas. 50,5 x 40 cm. Edges relined. Restored. Framed.
The present painting is a variation by the artist of his first self-portrait with his first wife Maria Sophie, b. Robert (1726-1759), which is kept by the Gemäldegalerie Berlin-Dahlem (inv.-no. 1697).
Literature: Heinz, Marianne / Herzog, Erich (cat.), Johann Heinrich Tischbein d. Ä. (1722-1789). exhibition.-cat. Kassel, Neue Galerie, 25 November 1989 - 11 February 1990. Kassel 1989, p. 161, cat.-no. 18: the Berlin version of the painting and citation of the present variation of the subject. - Flohr, Anna-Charlotte, Johann Heinrich Tischbein d. Ä. (1722-1789) als Porträtmaler. Mit einem kritischen Werkverzeichnis. München 1997 (Diss. phil. / cat. rais., Frankfurt a. M. 1996), p. 243, no. G 167: the Berlin version of the painting and citation of the present variation of the subject.
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity by Dr. Marianne Heinz, Kassel, dated 11 April 2016.
Provenance: From the descendants of the artist.
