Lot: 7003
Date of sale: 14. Tue Nov 2023
Friedrich Hartmann Barisien (1724-1796) (attrib.), German-Baltic portrait painter, attended the drawing and painting school in...
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Friedrich Hartmann Barisien (1724-1796) (attrib.), German-Baltic portrait painter, attended the drawing and painting school in Dresden, lived in St. Petersburg and Moscow from 1756, worked for Tsar Peter III in Peterhof Palace. From 1770 to 1778 he was court painter and inspector of the art gallery of the Duke of Courland Peter von Biron. This representative portrait of Peter of Biron with allonge wig and blue sash, oil on canvas, unsigned, doubled restored and retouched, notation ”peint par Barisien 1778” transferred on the reverse, in the original frame of the time with magnificently carved cartouches, 83 x 62 cm, framed 127 x 105 cm, falls into this period.
Category: Art before 1800