Bildnis der Schauspielerin Christiane Henriette Koch

c. 1773

not on display

Anton Graff1736 Winterthur – 1813 Dresden

The actress Christiane Henriette Koch, née Merleck (Leipzig 1731-Berlin 1804) made her debut in Vienna in 1748 and in the same year married the actor and later theatre director Gottfried Heinrich Koch (1703-1775); she acted in Lübeck, Hamburg, Leipzig and Berlin, where her husband ran a theatre in Behrenstrasse from 1771, which she briefly continued to run as a widow and soon after sold to Doebbelin.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.

Also known as

Portrait of the Actress Christiane Henriette Koch Portrait d'actrice Christiane Henriette Koch

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

image: 65 x 53 cm

Inventory number

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, 1847

Signature

Inscriptions

Accession year

1847

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. 58. - Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff. Leben und Werk, Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1967, No. 821.

Object type

painting

Classification

B 1[1] painting 16th to 18th century CHE

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