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Summary

Georg Weikert : "Porträt der Königin Maria Theresia von Sachsen, Erzherzogin von Österreich (1767–1827)" (

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Artist

Attributed to Georg Weikert
Alternative names	Johann Georg Weikert; Georg Weickert; Weickerlf; Weikert; Weickert
Description	Austrian portrait painter
Date of birth/death	1743 / 1745	2 February 1799 / 1798
Location of birth/death	Vienna	Vienna
Authority file	: Q1506344 VIAF : 87290042 ISNI : 0000000066380633 ULAN : 500030465 GND : 1067536825 NKC : xx0244743

inscribed on the reverse: Tischbein

Title

"Porträt der Königin Maria Theresia von Sachsen, Erzherzogin von Österreich (1767–1827)"

Object type

painting

Description

English: Presumed portrait of Landgravine Augusta Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt (1765-1796), Duchess of Zweibrücken, misidentified with Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Saxony (1767-1827), wife of Anton I of Saxony

Identification proposed by user Ecummenic ( talk ) based on the comparison with some portraits of that princess (see images below)

Date

1780s or 1790s

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 62.5 cm (24.6 in); width: 54 cm (21.2 in)

Collection

Unidentified location
Location	18th-century portrait paintings of women, with Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or Unknown Unknown location label QS:Len,"Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or Unknown Unknown location" and year.

Object history

Provenance:

Schloss Nöthnitz , Saxony, Counts von Bünau, then Barons (Freiherren) von Finck;
Private Collection, Germany.
Auction: Dorotheum, Vienna, 18 December 2019, Alte Meister , lot 333 [1] [2]
Auction: Dorotheum, Vienna, 8 September 2020, Property from Aristocratic Estates and Important Provenance , lot 57 [3] [4]

Inscriptions

inscribed on the reverse: Tischbein

Source/Photographer

https://www.dorotheum.com/de/l/6534909/

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