An album containing nine portraits of women

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JOHANN HEINRICH TISCHBEIN THE ELDER (HAINA 1722-1789 KASSEL)
An album containing nine portraits of women
black and red chalk (i); black and red chalk, blue pastel, fragmentary watermark (ii); black and red chalk (iii); black and red chalk (iv); black and red chalk (v); black and red chalk, stumping, fragmentary watermark shileld surmounted by a crown (vi); black and red chalk, stumping, fragmentary watermark D & C Blauw (vii); black and red chalk, red wash, fragmentary watermark D & C Blauw (viii); black and red chalk, stumping (ix)
(i): 12.5 x 9.5 cm (5 x 3 3⁄4 in.), oval
(ii): 12 x 10.2 cm (4 3⁄4 x 4 in.), oval
(iii): 13 x 10 cm (5 x 4 in.), oval
(iv): 13 x 11 cm (5 x 4 1⁄4 in.), oval
(v): 23 x 19 cm (9 x 7 1⁄2 in.)
(vi): 23.4 x 18.8 cm (9 1⁄8 x 7 3⁄4 in.)
(vii) 23.4 x 18.8 cm (9 1⁄8 x 7 3⁄4 in.)
(viii): 20 x 16 cm (7 3⁄4 x 6 1⁄4 in.)
(ix): 19 x 13.5 cm (7 3⁄8 x 5 1⁄4 in.)
Portrait of a lady in profile to the right (i); Portrait of a lady in profile wearing a blue dress (ii); Portrait of a lady in profile wearing a hat (iii); Portrait of a lady in profile to the right (iv); Portrait of a young lady writing (v); Portrait of a lady (vi); Portrait of an older lady in profile to the right (vii); Portrait of a lady with red ribbons in her hair and on her chest (viii); Portrait of a lady wearing a black hat (ix)

Provenance

Ilse Simson, Dresden (according to an inscription on a separate sheet).
Possibly Johanna Wohlgenannt Fiorino (1874-1953), Kassel (according to the same inscription).

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Lot Essay

Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder was a talented member of the Tischbein family of painters. He specialises in portraiture and after travelling to Italy and France he established a new style of portraiture in Germany. These small and delicate portrait drawings can be stylistically compared to Tischbein’s self-portrait Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig (inv. Z 5927; H. Vogel, ‘Handzeichnungen Johann Heinrich Tischbeins in Jütischem Familienbesitz’, Jahrbuch Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur, 1963, pp. 285-292, ill.) and to other sheets by the artist (see M. Heinz, E. Herzog, Johann Heinrich Tischbein d.Ä. (1722-1789), exhib. cat., Neue Galerie Staatliche und Städtische Kunstsammlungen Kassel Ausstellung, 1989-1990, pp. 175-178).

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