Friedrich Erhard Wagener (1759-1813)

Portrait of Friedrich Franz I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1756-1837), small half length, wearing a yellow-lined dark blue jacket with lace chemise and blue sash

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Friedrich Erhard Wagener (1759-1813)
Portrait of Friedrich Franz I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1756-1837), small half length, wearing a yellow-lined dark blue jacket with lace chemise and blue sash
with the crowned inventory number 484 on the backing of the frame and with the inventory number 4798 (in blue) on the backing of the frame and with the inventory number 964 on the reverse of the frame
pastel on vellum, octogonal, framed as an oval
33.2 x 27.5 cm

Lot Essay

U. Thieme and F. Becker in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, etc., XXXV, 1941, p.34, record two pastels by the same artist of the present sitter and his wife Luise in the Ryoal Collection of Denmark, Castle Rosenborg, Copenhagen.

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