Portrait of the wife
of Friedrich II

Elisabeth Christine
of Brunswick - Bevern.
Born in 1715 in Wolfenbüttel.
Died in 1797 in Berlin.

Tempera on bone leaf.

Signed: A. PESNE

<> ANTOINE PESNE <>

Born in 1683 in Paris.
1711 by Friedrich I.
appointed court painter,
He served three kings at the
Prussian court.
Died in 1757 in Berlin.

On the left, a detail from the portrait around 1739, by Antoine Pesne. On the right the mother, Antoinette Amalie of Braunschweig -Wolfenbüttel, a detail

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