Portrait of a Princess of Württemberg with her Daughter
Johann Lorenz Kreul (Erlbach 1765 - Nürnberg 1840)
Lot-No. 22
Proceeds : 3.100 €
Pastel/vellum paper, 84 x 69 cm, sign. lo. le. Kreul pinxit, min. scratches. - According to tradition the depicted lady is a princess of Württemberg, either Sophie Dorothea, later tsarina Maria Feodorowna, or her sister Wilhelmine. - Exceptional portrait painter, worked mainly in pastell, pupil of the Nuremberg art school a. of the Ansbach court painter Fr. Naumann, study trips throughout Germany, temporarily working at the Stuttgart a. the Bayreuth court. - Mus.: Nürnberg (Germanisches Nat.-Museum, Städt. Galerie), Bamberg. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.
Johann Lorenz Kreul: Portrait of a Princess of Württemberg with her Daughter
Johann Lorenz Kreul (Erlbach 1765 - Nürnberg 1840)
Portrait of a Princess of Württemberg with her Daughter
Lot-No. 22
Proceeds : 3.100 €
Pastel/vellum paper, 84 x 69 cm, sign. lo. le. Kreul pinxit, min. scratches. - According to tradition the depicted lady is a princess of Württemberg, either Sophie Dorothea, later tsarina Maria Feodorowna, or her sister Wilhelmine. - Exceptional portrait painter, worked mainly in pastell, pupil of the Nuremberg art school a. of the Ansbach court painter Fr. Naumann, study trips throughout Germany, temporarily working at the Stuttgart a. the Bayreuth court. - Mus.: Nürnberg (Germanisches Nat.-Museum, Städt. Galerie), Bamberg. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.