Louise Albertine de Brandt, Baroness von Grapendorf

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Medium

engraving with etching on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Wessely 1887, no. 46, State i/iii

Accession Number

2010.85.1

Artists / Makers

Georg Friedrich Schmidt (artist) German, 1712 - 1775

Pierre Le Sueur (artist after) French, died 1786

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Johnson, Jan

Bibliography

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