Lot 89: Queen Friederike of Prussia (1751-1805), in white dress with embroidered white stole over her shoulders, wearing a headdress on her curling fair hair

JOHANN FRIEDRICH TIELKER (GERMAN, 1763-1832)
Queen Friederike of Prussia (1751-1805), in white dress with embroidered white stole over her shoulders, wearing a headdress on her curling fair hair
signed and dated 'Tielker. pinx 94.' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 3 in. (76 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount

Darmstadt, Residenzschloss, Schlossmuseum, 1974-2007, inv. no. 21066.

Collection of Architect Kurt Jahn (1903-1978), Darmstadt, inv. J.40.

FROM THE JAHN COLLECTION, DARMSTADT

The sitter was the daughter of Landgrave Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt and married the future King Frederick William II of Prussia in 1769, as his second wife. A similar miniature of her is illustrated in G. Biermann/Brinckmann, Die Miniaturensammlung Seiner Königlichen Hoheit des Grossherzogs Ernst Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein, Leipzig, 1917, pl. 75, no. 238.