File:Presumed portrait of Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, so-called Maria Theresa of Austria.png

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Summary

Georg Weikert: "Porträt der Königin Maria Theresia von Sachsen, Erzherzogin von Österreich (1767–1827)" (

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Artist

Attributed to Georg Weikert
Alternative names	Johann Georg Weikert; Georg Weickert; Weickerlf; Weikert; Weickert
Description	Austrian portrait painter
Date of birth/death	1743 / 1745	2 February 1799 / 1798
Location of birth/death	Vienna	Vienna
Authority file	: Q1506344 VIAF: 87290042 ISNI: 0000000066380633 ULAN: 500030465 GND: 1067536825 NKC: xx0244743

inscribed on the reverse: Tischbein

Title

"Porträt der Königin Maria Theresia von Sachsen, Erzherzogin von Österreich (1767–1827)"

Object type

painting

Description

English: Presumed portrait of Landgravine Augusta Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt (1765-1796), Duchess of Zweibrücken, misidentified with Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Saxony (1767-1827), wife of Anton I of Saxony

Identification proposed by user Ecummenic (talk) based on the comparison with some portraits of that princess (see images below)

Date

1780s or 1790s

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 62.5 cm (24.6 in); width: 54 cm (21.2 in)

Collection

Unidentified location
Location	18th-century portrait paintings of women, with Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or UnknownUnknown location label QS:Len,"Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or UnknownUnknown location" and year.

Object history

Provenance:

Schloss Nöthnitz, Saxony, Counts von Bünau, then Barons (Freiherren) von Finck;
Private Collection, Germany.
Auction: Dorotheum, Vienna, 18 December 2019, Alte Meister, lot 333 [1] [2]
Auction: Dorotheum, Vienna, 8 September 2020, Property from Aristocratic Estates and Important Provenance, lot 57 [3] [4]

Inscriptions

inscribed on the reverse: Tischbein

Source/Photographer

https://www.dorotheum.com/de/l/6534909/

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Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
Vertical resolution	72 dpi
Color space	Uncalibrated
Image width	631 px
Image height	720 px
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows)
Date and time of digitizing	15:28, 27 January 2020
Date metadata was last modified	15:28, 27 January 2020
File change date and time	15:28, 27 January 2020
Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:53bb2cb7-a1c6-674b-b7eb-4220800d71b6

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