Allegorical Portrait of Dorothea Emerentia von Canitz, née von Arnim, 1745

Title

Allegorical Portrait of Dorothea Emerentia von Canitz, née von Arnim

Draughtsman

• Simon Fokke

Period Produced

• 18th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Physical Description

Brush and light brown and light grey ink, over red chalk

Material

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

Technique

• brush drawing
• red chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

• Netherlandish

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• preliminary drawing for an etching

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert und datiert unten links (mit der Feder in Grau): S Fokke fec 1745

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet unten links (mit Bleistift): D
Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• [nicht identifizierbar, angeschnitten]

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• allegory
• portrait

Primary

• 48C2 sculpture
• 43A433 crowning with laurel
• 52A6(+1121) Truth; 'Verità' (Ripa) (+ partially clothed with wings)
• 51D4(+111) Beauty; 'Bellezza' (Ripa) (+ nude)
• 25G4111 garland, wreath