David Matthieu, attributed to - Portrait of Duke Otto Wilhelm Truchsess von Waldburg - image-1

Lot 67 Dα

David Matthieu, attributed to - Portrait of Duke Otto Wilhelm Truchsess von Waldburg

Auction 1138 - overview Cologne
20.09.2019, 14:30 - Paintings 15th-19th C.
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
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David Matthieu, attributed to

Portrait of Duke Otto Wilhelm Truchsess von Waldburg

Oil on canvas (relined). 87.5 x 71.5 cm.

Otto Wilhelm was the only son of Duke Otto Wilhelm Truchsess von Waldburg (1687-1715), who died young, and his wife Dorothea Charlotte von Tettau (1683-1748). He became a cornet in the seventh cavalry regiment of the Prussian army in 1728, but was later transferred to the tenth in 1730, where he became a lieutenant in 1732 and cavalry captain in 1740 (cf. Kloosterhuis, Jürgen: Katte, Ordre und Kriegsartikel: aktenanalytische und militärhistorische Aspekte einer „facheusen" Geschichte, 2nd edition, Berlin 2011, p. 42, note. 137).

Provenance

The Krug zu Nidda Collection, Schloss Frohwein. – Confiscated during the Russian occupation and presented to the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig in 1946. - Returned to the Krug von Nidda family in 1997.

Literature

Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig. Katalog der Gemälde 1995, ed. by Herwig Guratzsch & Dietulf Sander, Stuttgart 1995, p. 121, no. 1834.