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Portrait of Friedrich Christian, Prince of Saxony (), threequarterlength, in armour, with an ermine lined mantle and the sash and star of the Order of the White Eagle by 
																	Anton Raphael Mengs

Anton Raphael Mengs

( German, 1728 - 1779 )

Portrait of Friedrich Christian, Prince of Saxony (), threequarterlength, in armour, with an ermine lined mantle and the sash and star of the Order of the White Eagle

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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

155.7 x 110.8 cm.

Description:

or LOG IN

Exhibited:

Dresden, Berliner Saal, Die Grosse-Kunstausstellung, 1908, no. 549.Darmstadt, Residenzschloss,Deutsches Barock und Rokoko: herausgegeben im Anschluss an die Jahrhundert-Ausstellung deutscher Kunst 1650-1800, 1914, with catalogue by G. Biermann.

Literature:

Sammlungskatalog der Gemldegalerie Dresden, Dresden, 1765, p. 242.G.L. Bianconi, Elogio Storico Del Cavaliere Anton Raffaele Mengs: con un Catalogo Delle Opere Da Esso Fatte, Milan, 1780, pp. 25 and 87. Sammlungskatalog der Gemldegalerie Dresden, Dresden, 1782, p. 290.J.P. Doray de Longrais, Oeuvres de M. Mengs, traduites par Doray de Longrais. Eloge historique de M. Mengs, par N. Guibal et Louis Herissant, Regensburg, 1782, p. 19. M.C.F. Prange, Des Ritters Anton Raphael Mengs, ersten Mahlers Karl III. Knigs in Spanien hinterlassne Werke, Halle, 1786, I, pp. 106 and 159.G.N. d'Azara and C. Fea, Opere di Antonio Raffaello Mengs, primo Pittore del Re cattolico Carlo III, Rome, 1787, p. XLI.G. Schilling, Anton Raphael Mengs: smmtliche hinterlassene Schriften, Bonn, 1843, I, p. 26.Sammlungskatalog der Gemldegalerie Dresden, Dresden, 1872, p. 373.K. Woermann, Katalog der Kniglichen Gemldegalerie zu Dresden, Dresden, 1887, p. 69.J.L. Sponsel, Frsten-Bildnisse aus dem Hause Wettin, Dresden, 1906, p. 68. A. Feulner, Skulptur und Malerei des 18 Jahrhunderts in Deutschland, Potsdam, 1929, XX, p. 24. S. Pckler-Limpurg, Der Klassizismus in der deutschen Kunst, Munich, 1929, p. 33. H.W. Singer, Neuer Bildniskatalog, Leipzig, 1938, II, no. 11741. D. Honisch, Anton Raphael Mengs und die Bildform des Frhklassizismus, Recklinghausen, 1965, p. 117, no. 213. S. Roettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs, 1728-1779, Munich, 1999, I, pp. 224-25, no. 153, illustrated.

Provenance:

(Probably) Commissioned by the sitter's father, Frederick Augustus II, Elector of Saxony (1696-1763), and by descent in the family to the following,Friedrich August III, Elector of Saxony (1865-1932), at Schloss Sybillenort, Szczodre, (probably) sold following his death with the contents of the castle and subsequently reacquired by a descendant, and by inheritance to the present owner.

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