Daniel Woge (1717-1797)

Portrait of Luise Charlotte, Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1779-1804), standing full length in an interior by a curtain, wearing a lace-lined white satin dress with a pink wrap, holding a rose, her right hand resting on a pug dog on a bench draped with an ermine-lined blue cape

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Daniel Woge (1717-1797)
Portrait of Luise Charlotte, Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1779-1804), standing full length in an interior by a curtain, wearing a lace-lined white satin dress with a pink wrap, holding a rose, her right hand resting on a pug dog on a bench draped with an ermine-lined blue cape
with the crowned inventory number 488 on a label on the stretcher and with the inventory numbers 1502 (in red) and 4773 (in blue)
oil on canvas, unframed
133.4 x 103.9 cm

Literature

Exhibited

Schwerin, 1954, n0180, as manner of Christian Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski and where dated to circa 1790.

Lot Essay

A group portrait of Friedrich Franz I, his wife Luise, Princess of Sachsen-Gotha-Roda and their children of 1788 by the same artist, including the same background, is in the Staatliches Museum, Schwerin (J. Borchert, Mecklenburgs Grossherzöge 1815-1918, 1992, p.16, ill.). For information on the artist see lot 23.

The sitter is the daughter of Friedrich Franz I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1756-1837) and Luise, Princess of Sachsen-Gotha (1756-1808). She married August, Duke of Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg (1772-1822) on 21 October 1797. Their only daughter, Luise, married Ernst, Duke of Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld and was the mother of Prince Albert, who married Queen Victoria of Great Britain.

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