Bildnis Frau Knüpfer-Jacot

c. 1868

not on display

Anna Susanna Fries1827 Zürich – 1901 Sestri Levante

Anna Fries, a granddaughter of the painter Heinrich Freudweiler, stayed in The Hague for two years at the end of the 1860s, where she was commissioned to paint portraits of the Queen and people in her surroundings.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Medium

Oil on canvas on cardboard

Dimensions

image: 49.5 x 40 cm

Inventory number

2221

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, Bequest of Sophie Heim, 1931

Signature

inscr. r. next to shoulder: Anna Fries.; on verso u. r.: Portrait von Mme. Knüpfer-Jacot / Im Haag gemalt v. Anna Fries

Inscriptions

Accession year

1931

Provenance

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Literature (general)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 185.

Object type

painting

Classification

C 1[1] painting 19th century CHE

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