*Christian Wilhelm Ersnt DIETRICH (Weimar, 1712 - Dresden, 1774)
Couple making wreaths; The bird-catcher; Love telling fortune
Three canvases
Couple dimensions: 135 x 73 cm
Birdcage dimensions: 135 x 73 cm
Size of Love: 143 x 73 cm
provenance: sale from the Goldschmidt - Prizbam collection in Brussels, sale in Amsterdam, Frederik Muller
& Cie, June 17, 1924, no. 9 (as Ecole française du XVIIIe siècle)
This collection, built up in Prague by Friedrich Lippmann (1838-1903), includes masterpieces by
masterpieces by Baldung-Grien, now in the Germanisches-nationalmuseum in Nuremberg
and the Musée du Louvre.
Another Dietrich version of the central panel composition is known, in small wood format
(41×32.4 cm), in the Staatliches Museum in Schwerin.
We would like to thank Dr. Petra Schniewind, author of the Dietrich monograph, for confirming the
the autograph nature of these three panels, by e-mail and digital photograph, on June 24
2023.
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