Allegorical Portrait of Baron Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig von Canitz, ca. 1745

Title

Allegorical Portrait of Baron Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig von Canitz

Draughtsman

• Simon Fokke

Period Produced

• 18th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Physical Description

Brush and grey ink, over red chalk

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• red chalk
• graphite
• Vergé paper

Technique

• brush drawing
• red chalk drawing
• graphite drawing

Geographic Reference

• Netherlandish

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• preliminary drawing for an engraving

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert unten rechts (mit der Feder in Braun): S. Fokke fc

Captions Added Later

Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

• [nicht identifizierbar, angeschnitten]

Institution

• Städel Museum

Administration

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• allegory
• portrait

Persons Shown

• Pheme
• Apollo

Primary

• 96A5(FAMA) Fama as Roman personification
• 61B11 anonymous historical person portrayed
• 92B38(LYRE) attributes of Apollo: lyre
• 52A6(+113) Truth; 'Verità' (Ripa) (+ clothed)