David Matthieu, attributed to Barbara Rosina Lisiewska-de Gasc, attributed to - Portrait of Duchess Helene Christiane Truchsess von Waldburg - image-1

Lot 68 Dα

David Matthieu, attributed to Barbara Rosina Lisiewska-de Gasc, attributed to - Portrait of Duchess Helene Christiane Truchsess von Waldburg

Auction 1138 - overview Cologne
20.09.2019, 14:30 - Paintings 15th-19th C.
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 6.200 € (incl. premium)
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David Matthieu, attributed to
Barbara Rosina Lisiewska-de Gasc, attributed to

Portrait of Duchess Helene Christiane Truchsess von Waldburg

Oil on canvas (relined). 81 x 65.5 cm.

Helena Christiane von Ludewig (1706-1776) was one of the three daughters of Johann Peter von Ludewig (1670-1743), Brandenburg ambassador during the peace conference of Rijswijk in 1697 which ended the Nine Years' War. Johann Peter von Ludewig was raised to nobility in 1719 and became chancellor of Halle University in 1721. His daughter Helene Christiane's first marriage was to Philipp Friedrich Krug von Nidda auf Döllnitz, Burg und Radewell (1689-1743) and her second to Count Otto Wilhelm Truchsess von Waldburg (1715-1748).
The present portrait is thought to be the work by David Matthieu which Friedrich Krug v. Nidda und v. Falkenstein mentions in an essay in the “Heimatkalender Nidda” from 1928.

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. 1835.