LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Watercolor and bodycolor on ivory, gilt-metal frame, ribbon tie surmount

Measurements:

2.60 in. (6.60 cm.) (height) by 3.31 in. (8.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed verso: Friederike und / Juliane Bause

Exhibited:

Dresden, 1772 (cited in literature, Leipzig 1774);. Vienna, 1965, no. 129, 'eines der besten Werke aus Fügers Frühzeit' (loaned by Günther Muthmann

Literature:

Neue Bibliothek der schönen Wissenschaften und der freyen Künste, 1774, XVI, I. p. 112;. Laban, 1905, pp. 16-17 & 63, no. 80;. Thieme & Becker, 1900-1951, vol. XIII (1916), p. 553;. Stix, 1925, pp. 13, 17-18;. de Bourgoing, 1925, pp. 19 & 21;. Schidlof, 1964, vol. II, p. 274, vol. III, pl. 223, no. 436;. Keil, 2009, pp. 30, 32, 37, 202, cat. no. 25

Provenance:

Günther Muthmann, Wuppertal-Barmen, by 1964,. his sale, Zurich, Sotheby's, 17 May 1979, lot 72