Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein - Mother with Sleeping Child - image-1

Lot 2145 Dα

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein - Mother with Sleeping Child

Auction 1231 - overview Cologne
18.11.2023, 11:00 - Old Masters and 19th Century, Part I
Estimate: 20.000 € - 25.000 €
Result: 17.640 € (incl. premium)
Artist Alert
Print page
Watchlist

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

Mother with Sleeping Child

Oil on canvas. 54.6 x 47 cm.

The painting is still in the possession of the descendants of the painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. Here it always bore the title "Mutterglück" (Mother's Happiness). According to family tradition, it is a portrait of the painter's wife, Anna Martha Kötting (1775 -1832), who is holding her fourth child, daughter Conradine, born in 1810, in her arms.

Provenance

Conradine Tischbein (daughter of the artist). Wilhelm Harders, Eutin and afterwards his daughter, married name Riecken, Hamburg. - Dr. Jürgen Hach, Kiel.