Karl Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

DescDE Dietricy, Christian Wilhelm Ernst 1712 Weimar - 1774 Dresden - zugeschrieben Porträt eines Herren mit Rüstung und Pelz. Öl auf Holz. 33 x 25,5cm. Rahmen. Dietricy, Christian Wilhelm Ernst 1712 Weimar - 1774 Dresden - attributed Portrait of a Gentleman in Armour and Fur. Oil on wood. 33 x 25,5cm. Framed.

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, known as Dietricy (Weimar 1712–1774 Dresden) Portrait of an Oriental man, oil on canvas, 53.5 x 44.5 cm, in a gilded Empire frame Provenance: Dorotheum auction, Vienna, 19.10.1993, lot 176; German private collection. The Saxon court painter, Dietricy was referred to by Johann Joachim Winckelmann as the “Raphael of landscape painting”. This characterful head exhibits the influence of the Rembrantesque Oriental heads by the Tiepolo family, which Dietricy got to know in Dresden in 1742. The Dresdener Galerie owned 35 portrait heads of this kind by Dietricy. On the artist, see P. Schniewind-Michel, Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, genannt Dietricy, Munich 2012.

Lot Description Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (Weimar 1712-1774 Dresden) Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, in a pink dress, and a black shawl, a fan in her left hand, seated in a landscape oil on panel 11½ x 8 3/8 in. (29.2 x 21.3 cm.) Special Notice VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

Dietrich, gen. Dietricy, Christian Wilhelm Ernst (Weimar 1712 - Dresden 1774), attr. Portrait of a Nobleman Oil/wood, 33 x 25,5 cm, min. rest. - History, figure a. landscape painter as well as etcher, one of the most versatile a. appreciated painters of his time, son of the Weimar court painter Johann Georg D., already at the age of twelve he became pupil of A. Thiele in Dresden, because of his extraordinary talent he enjoyed the patronage of king August the Strong a. his minister Brühl, in 1741 he became painter to the court in Dresden, a position he kept notwithstanding offers from Copenhagen a. Berlin, travelled to Holland a. Italy, in 1764 he became professor in Dresden a. head of the drawing school of the Meißen porcelain manufacture. - Mus.: Paris (Louvre), St. Petersburg (Eremitage), New York (Metrop. Mus.), Dresden (Gemäldegal. Alte Meister), Wien (Hofmus.), London (British Mus.), Cambridge (Fitzwilliam Mus.), Nürnberg (Germ. Nat.-Mus.), Moskau, a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, a. others.

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, known as Dietricy (Weimar 1712–1774 Dresden) Abraham casts out Hagar, signed and dated lower left: Dietricy: 1761, to lower right an inventory label from the Beauvais collection dated 1869, oil on canvas, 54.5 x 72.5 cm, framed, Specialist: Dr. Alexander Strasoldo