Louise Albertine de Brandt, Baroness von Grapendorf

Georg Friedrich Schmidt

Artist, German, 1712 - 1775

Georg Friedrich Schmidt, after Pierre Le Sueur

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving with etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 48.9 x 34.7 cm (19 1/4 x 13 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 49.1 x 34.7 cm (19 5/16 x 13 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2010.85.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wessely 1887, no. 46, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jan Johnson, Quebec); purchased 2010 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1887

  • Wessely, Joseph Eduard. Georg Frederic Schmidt. Verzeichniss seiner Stiche und Radirungen. Hamburg, 1887, no. 46, i/iii

Inscriptions

lower center, in tablet: Louise Albertine / de Brandt. / Baronne de Grapendorf. / née la 13 Decembre 1729 / morte le 28 Novembre 1753; lower center in plate: Reçois, Ombre cherie, au sein de l'Empirée... / et ton être eut joui de l'Immortalité; by later hand, lower right in graphite: G. F. Schmidt / W. 46 III (ill); by later hand, lower left in graphite: Iier Etat

Wikidata ID

Q76552909

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