Lot 1614 D α

Georg Anton Urlaub - Portrait of Baroness von Lerchenfeld

Auction 1057 - overview Cologne
14.11.2015, 11:00 - Old Master and 19th Century Paintings and Drawings
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €

Georg Anton Urlaub

Portrait of Baroness von Lerchenfeld

Pastel on parchment. 56.5 x 46.5 cm.
Framed under glass.
Signed and dated upper left: GAUrlaub 1782.

According to tradition, the sitter of this portrait was a member of the house of Liebenstein in Neuburg. The portrait painter Georg Anton Urlaub was famous among his contemporaries and active in Würzburg, Bamberg and Nuremberg. He spent his latter years painting for the court of the last Prince-Elector of Mainz, Baron Friedrich Karl Joseph of Erthal.