Copy after Pesne's Philippine Charlotte, Princess of Prussia and Duchess of Brunswick
ArtistWorkshop of
Antoine Pesne
(1683-1757, active in Prussia)
Dateca. 1744
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsImage: 54 3/4 × 43 in. (139.1 × 109.2 cm)
Frame: 68 1/8 × 54 3/4 × 4 1/16 in. (173 × 139.1 × 10.3 cm)
Frame: 68 1/8 × 54 3/4 × 4 1/16 in. (173 × 139.1 × 10.3 cm)
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN377
The inscription, lower left, identifies the sitter as Princess Philippine Charlotte, sister of the Emperor Frederick the Great of Prussia. Frederick was a major patron of the arts enamored of all things French. French artists flocked to his court, including Antoine Pesne, who became Frederick’s official portraitist. Philippine Charlotte wears the height of French fashions. Her skirt is wide and flat, so wearing it was an awkward, impractical ordeal—a woman had to pass through a door sideways.
On View
On viewLocation
- Museum of Art, Gallery 15, Wall West
Girolamo Romanino
