From Meissen to Paris : The Röbbig Collection | Part III

From Meissen to Paris : The Röbbig Collection | Part III

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 768. Portrait of a young boy with a bird, previously said to be Goethe as a child.

Attributed to Johann Conrad Seekatz

Portrait of a young boy with a bird, previously said to be Goethe as a child

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Attributed to Johann Conrad Seekatz

1719 - 1768

Portrait of a young boy with a bird, previously said to be Goethe as a child


Oil on canvas

57.6 x 48.7 cm; 22⅝ by 19⅛ in.

Comte de Thorenc;

By descent to Mrs Péguilhan de Sartoux, in 1932.

Sale Ancienne collection du comte de Thorenc - tableaux de l'école allemande du XVIIIe siècle, Boisgirard, 16 March 1988, lot 19 (as Johann Conrad Seekatz and titled Portrait de Goethe enfant).

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Goethe, 1749-1832: Exposition organisée pour commémorer le centenaire de la mort de Goethe, 1932, no. 43.

A. Vallentin, 'L'Exposition Goethe à la Bibliothèque Nationale', dans La Renaissance, 1932, XV, vol. 11-12, November-December, p. 175, repr.