File:Ziesenis - Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.jpg

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Johann Georg Ziesenis  (1716–1776)  wikidata:Q655329
 
Johann Georg Ziesenis
Alternative names
Johann Georg Zisenis
Description Danish-German court painter
Date of birth/death 1716 Edit this at Wikidata 3 April 1776 or 1777
date QS:P,+1776-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1776-04-03T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1777-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Location of birth/death Copenhagen Hanover
Work period between circa 1731 and circa 1777
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1731-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1777-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
The Hague (1768-...)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q655329
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Portrait of Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1721-1792). This particular portrait would appear to be the prime version of what was evidently a very popular portrait type of the Duke. Schrader (op. cit.) records several other versions, including those at Potsdam-Sanssouci, Darmstadt, Neues Palais and Celle, Bomann-Museum.
Date 1762 (dated)
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 136.3 cm (53.6 in); width: 96.7 cm (38 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,136.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,96.7U174728
Object history

Provenance:

  • Braunschweig (1885-1895);
  • Braunschweig 1911, Inv. Nr. 60;
  • Blankenburg circa 1929, Inv. Nr. 0354
  • Auction: Sotheby's, Munich, 5 October 2005, Property from the Royal House of Hanover, lot 567.
Exhibition history
  • Berlin, Friedrich der Grosse in der Kunst, 1912, no. 11;
  • Hanover, Jubiläumaustellung des Kunstvereins Hanover, 1932, no. 57
Inscriptions Signed and dated lower left: J G Ziesenis/pinxit: 1762
Source/Photographer https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2005/property-from-the-royal-house-of-hanover-mm0986/lot.567.html

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