List of works by Anton Graff
Anton Graff (1736–1813) was a Swiss painter who worked for the greater part of his artistic life as a Saxon court painter at the Dresden Art Academy . He was a master of portrait art in the classicism of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and was groundbreaking for the further development of this profession. Graff created almost two thousand works, of which about 1250 paintings, as well as numerous replicas and several hundred drawings. Occasionally he also painted landscapes.
List of works
The list contains a selection of his works. Those are included that are marked as public domain in Wikipedia and its sister projects. Copies and engravings of Graff's pictures that were made by other artists are not included. As far as the pictures can be verified on the website of the current owners (museums), a link has been created. The information comes from the article Anton Graff or from other Internet resources accessible via Wikipedia and is supplemented by the information from Berckenhagen (1967) on the respective images. Slight deviations in the information on the picture description pages , the linked information from the museums and the information from Berckenhagen can be determined.
The works are arranged roughly chronologically according to the time they were created, sometimes there are doubts about the exact time they were created or the information differs according to the sources.
The links refer to the individual works, so there are numerous multiple links across the entire list.
image | Title (date of origin) | Material, size | collection | Remarks |
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Self-Portrait (1765) |
Oil on canvas 100 × 78.5 cm |
Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden |
Graff's admission piece as an aggregated member of the Dresden Art Academy helped him to be appointed court painter to the Elector of Saxony . | |
Johann Caspar Füessli (1765) |
Johann Caspar Füessli , also Füssli , (1706–1782), Swiss painter and writer, first biographer of Anton Graff (1770) | |||
Salomon Gessner (1765/66) |
Oil on canvas 80.5 × 61 cm |
National Museum Zurich | Salomon Gessner (1730–1788), Swiss poet, painter and graphic artist. In his right hand Gessner is holding a small book with the index finger pushed between the pages. With his left hand, which is hidden by the right forearm, he is holding a reed instrument (flute). This is considered a reference to his pastoral poems. | |
Juditha Gessner-Heidegger (1765/66) |
Oil on canvas 80.5 × 61 cm |
National Museum Zurich | Juditha Gessner (1736–1818), née Heidegger, wife of Salomon Gessner and sister of the publisher Johann Heinrich Heidegger | |
Elisabeth Sulzer (1765/66) |
Oil on canvas 100.5 × 82.5 cm |
Elisabeth Sulzer (1732–1797), b. Reinhart, from Winterthur. Elisabeth Sulzer and Oskar Reinhart have common ancestors. His art collection in the Oskar Reinhart Museum also includes works by Anton Graff. | ||
Adolph Christian Wendler (1766) |
Oil on canvas 75.5 × 59.5 cm |
City History Museum Leipzig | Adolph Christian Wendler (1734–1794), Mayor of Leipzig | |
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (1767) |
Oil on canvas 85.0 × 69.0 cm |
Gemäldegalerie Berlin | Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (1712–1774), German painter, etcher and engraver. The half-length portrait shows the proud Dresden gallery inspector, restorer and the royal Polish and Electoral Saxon court painter, who had been appointed since 1741, in a work smock and with a casual Polish headgear, as he seems to be giving up his occupation. A distant body language was achieved through the folded arms, which at least suggests the difficult character of the court painter. | |
Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener (1767) |
Oil on canvas oval 48 × 37 cm |
Castle Museum in Weimar |
Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener (1714–1771), German writer and publicist | |
Elector Friedrich August III. of Saxony (1768) |
Oil on canvas 85.5 × 68.5 cm |
Briner and Kern collection in Winterthur |
Friedrich August III. von Sachsen (1750–1827), portrayed with the breast star and the shoulder ribbon of the White Eagle Order , in the background on the left the red elector's coat and the ermine cap on it | |
Johann Georg of Saxony (1768) |
Oil on canvas 142 × 119.5 cm |
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Knight Johann Georg von Sachsen (1704–1774) , natural son of Augustus the Strong and Countess Ursula Katharina von Lubomirska , Saxon field marshal | |
Georg Detlev von Flemming (around 1768) |
Oil on canvas 61 × 48.5 cm |
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Count Georg Detlev von Flemming (1699–1771), Saxon-Polish general of the artillery, Grand Treasurer of Lithuania and Grand Voivode of Pomerania . | |
Christian August Clodius (1769) |
Oil on canvas 62 × 51 cm |
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Christian August Clodius (1737–1784), German poet and philosopher | |
Maria Kunigunde of Saxony (1769) |
Oil on canvas 91 × 73 cm |
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Princess Maria Kunigunde of Saxony (1740–1826), daughter of Elector Friedrich August II of Saxony , princess of the imperial monasteries of Essen and Thorn | |
Christian Felix Weisse (1769) |
Oil on canvas 64 × 52 cm |
Gleimhaus in Halberstadt Replica in the art collection of the University of Leipzig |
Christian Felix Weisse (1726–1804), writer | |
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (after 1769) |
Oil on canvas 64.5 × 52 cm |
Art collection of the University of Leipzig Replicas in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden and in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin | Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715–1769), writer. The painting is one of around nine replicas of the portrait that Graff painted in 1769 for the friendship gallery of the Leipzig publisher Philipp Erasmus Reich . | |
Christlieb Ehregott Gellert (before 1770) |
Oil on canvas 80 × 60 cm |
Christlieb Ehregott Gellert (1713–1795), metallurgist and mineralogist | ||
Adam Friedrich Oeser (around 1770) |
Oil on canvas 57 × 49 cm |
Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig |
Adam Friedrich Oeser (1717–1799), painter and sculptor | |
Johanna Sophie von Fritsch (before 1770) |
Oil on canvas 81 × 65.5 cm |
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Johanna Sophie Freifrau von Fritsch (1710–1777), née Winckler, wife of Thomas von Fritsch (1700–1775), Saxon statesman | |
Friedrich Wilhelm von Wedel-Jarlsberg (around 1770) |
Oil on canvas 66.5 × 54 cm |
Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød |
Friedrich Wilhelm von Wedel-Jarlsberg (1724–1790), Danish privy councilor and writer, with the pectoral cross of the Dannebrog Order | |
Moses Mendelssohn (1771) |
Oil on canvas 65.5 × 53.5 cm |
Art collection of the University of Leipzig | Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), philosopher. Mendelssohn is shown as a portrait of a mature man in front with his upper body turned slightly to the right. Its cohesion is indicated by the imperceptibly raised right shoulder and the slight, seemingly natural inclination of the head towards it. Mendelssohn found his portrait idealized. The oval is framed by dark, curly hair that has been combed back and the low-set goatee and whiskers. | |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1771) |
Oil on canvas 56.7 × 47.7 cm |
Art collection of the University of Leipzig | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), poet. Graff depicts the poet with a powdered wig and a red skirt, his gaze directed straight to the viewer. Lessing is said to have said about the portrait: “Do I look so devilishly friendly?” Graff's hand has a total of five copies of the motif (Winterthur, Gotha, Mainz, Berlin, Leipzig). | |
Carl Gottfried von Winkler (1771) |
Oil on canvas 75.5 × 59.5 cm |
City History Museum Leipzig | Carl Gottfried von Winkler (1722–1790), lawyer and mayor of Leipzig | |
Johann Nepomuk von Schaffgotsch in uniform (1771) |
Oil on canvas 78.5 × 64.5 cm |
National Museum in Warsaw |
Count Johann Nepomuk Gotthard von Schaffgotsch (1713–1775), Prussian secret state and war minister, commander of the Order of Malta , with the Maltese cross | |
Johann Nepomuk von Schaffgotsch in a housecoat (1771) |
Oil on canvas 78.5 × 64 cm |
National Museum in Warsaw |
Count Johann Nepomuk Gotthard von Schaffgotsch (1713–1775) | |
Philipp Erasmus Reich (1771/1772) |
Oil on canvas 62 × 50.7 cm |
Art collection of the University of Leipzig | Philipp Erasmus Reich (1717–1787), bookseller and publisher. In 1769, Reich began to build up a portrait collection of learned contemporaries, which at his death comprised at least 40 works. Anton Graff is commissioned with the majority of the portraits. | |
Karl Wilhelm Ramler (1772) |
Oil on canvas 65 × 53.3 cm |
Art collection of the University of Leipzig Unfinished replica in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin |
Karl Wilhelm Ramler (1725–1798), poet | |
Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn (1772) |
Oil on canvas 64.3 × 52.5 cm |
Art collection of the University of Leipzig | Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn (1712–1780), art theorist and diplomat | |
Thomas von Fritsch (1772) |
Oil on canvas 76 × 62 cm |
Art collection of the University of Leipzig | Baron Thomas von Fritsch (1700–1775), Saxon statesman | |
Friedrich Anton von Heynitz (1772) |
Oil on canvas 143 × 106.5 cm |
Friedrich Anton von Heynitz (1725–1802), Saxon general mining commissioner and Prussian chief miner and minister, reformer of the Berlin art academy | ||
Christian Gottlob Frege (1772) |
Oil on canvas 122 × 597 cm |
City History Museum Leipzig | Christian Gottlob Frege the Elder (1715–1781), banker and councilor in Leipzig | |
Elisabetha Sophie Augusta Graff (1772) |
Oil on canvas 58 × 48 cm |
Elisabetha Sophie Augusta Graff (1753–1812), née Sulzer, daughter of Johann Georg Sulzer , wife of Anton Graff | ||
Johann Jakob Engel (1773) |
Oil on canvas 71 × 60 cm |
Johann Jakob Engel (1741–1802), German writer and philosopher | ||
Johann August Ernesti (1773) |
Oil on canvas 63 × 5 cm |
Art collection of the University of Leipzig | Johann August Ernesti (1707–1781), theologian and philologist | |
Georg Joachim Zollikofer (1773) |
Oil on canvas 63.8 × 52 cm |
Art collection of the University of Leipzig | Georg Joachim Zollikofer (1730–1788), theologian | |
Susanne Magdalene von Baudissin (1773) |
Oil on canvas oval 67 × 54 cm |
Museumsberg Flensburg | Countess Susanne Magdalene Elisabeth von Baudissin (1723–1785), wife of Count Heinrich Christoph von Baudissin (1709–1786) | |
Charles of Saxony (1774) |
Oil on canvas on oval zinc sheet 64 × 52 cm |
Old National Gallery in Berlin | Prince Karl of Saxony (1733–1796) , with shoulder ribbon and star of the White Eagle Order | |
Johann Georg Sulzer (1774) |
Oil on canvas 55 × 44.5 cm |
Gleimhaus in Halberstadt |
Graff's father-in-law Johann Georg Sulzer (1720–1779), Swiss theologian and philosopher. The portrait was commissioned by Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim . The present one, which exists in several copies, is the most intimate of Graff's portraits of his father-in-law and perhaps of his extensive work in general. Sulzer appears in a short bust, his head almost in profile, without a wig and with short hair. The color is limited to a warm brown, the upper body is strictly subordinate to the face in terms of brightness. Due to the thickness of the application of paint, the face has almost gained a material presence. | |
Conrad Ekhof (1774) |
Oil on canvas 61 × 50 cm |
Conrad Ekhof (1720–1778), actor | ||
Carl Wilhelm Müller (1774) |
Oil on canvas 63 × 53 cm |
City History Museum Leipzig | Carl Wilhelm Müller (1728–1801), Mayor of the City of Leipzig | |
Johann Friedrich von and zum Stein (1774) |
Oil on canvas 83 × 66 cm |
Johann Friedrich von und zum Stein (1749–1799), officer and diplomat in the Prussian service, in the armor and coat of the Teutonic Knights | ||
Esther Charlotte Brandes (1775) |
Oil on canvas 124 × 94 cm |
Wahn Castle in Cologne |
The actress Esther Charlotte Brandes (1746–1786), née Koch, wife of Johann Christian Brandes , in the role of Ariadne auf Naxos with the words: “Terrible imagination! How it churns up my brain! ”A varied copy of the lost original portrait from 1775. In 1781, the engraver Heinrich Sintzenich (1752–1812) made a copper engraving in dotted style based on the original portrait . Instead of a rocky landscape with a view of the sea, the copy shows a tree landscape in the background. | |
Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1775) |
Oil on canvas 58 × 48 cm |
Classic Foundation Weimar | Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749–1833), née Schmeling, opera singer | |
Henry XIII. Reuss to Greiz (1775) |
Oil on canvas 112.6 × 84.0 cm |
New Pinakothek in Munich |
Henry XIII. Reuss zu Greiz (1747–1817), ruling Prince Reuss zu Greiz and older brother of Heinrich XIV. Reuss zu Greiz , Austrian ambassador to Prussia | |
Heinrich Christoph von Baudissin (around 1775) |
Oil on canvas oval 66 × 53 cm |
Museumsberg Flensburg | Count Heinrich Christoph von Baudissin (1709–1786), electoral Saxon general and governor of the Königstein Fortress , with the shoulder band of the White Eagle Order | |
Peter August von Schönberg (1775) |
Oil on canvas 105.3 × 83.5 cm |
Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg |
Peter August von Schönberg (1732–1791), House Marshal of the Elector of Saxony | |
Daughters of Julius Vieth von Golssenau (around 1775) |
Oil on canvas | State Art Gallery Karlsruhe | Daughters of the secret council of war, master of ceremonies and art collector Johann Julius von Vieth and Golßenau (1713–1784). Depicted are Juliane Caroline, Edle von der Planitz (1752–1832), Sophie Juliane Elisabeth, Countess d'Agrollo (1748–1832) and Juliane Charlotte, Countess von Todtleben (1754–1840). | |
Electress Maria Amalie Auguste (1770/75) |
Oil on canvas 78 × 60 cm |
Electress Maria Amalie Auguste (1752–1828), daughter of Count Palatine Friedrich Michael von Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler , wife of Elector Friedrich August III. of Saxony . Unfinished portrait | ||
Friederike Sophie Seyler (1775) |
Oil on canvas oval 80.5 × 63 cm |
Kunsthalle Hamburg in Hamburg |
Friederike Sophie Seyler (1737 or 1738–1790), b. Sparmann, actress, first marriage to Friederike Sophie Hensel , second marriage to the acting director Abel Seyler (1730–1800) | |
Adam Friedrich Oeser (1776) |
Oil on canvas 66.5 × 56 cm |
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg | Adam Friedrich Oeser (1717–1799), painter and sculptor | |
Self-Portrait in a Green Velvet Skirt (between 1767 and 1776) |
Oil on canvas 46.5 × 38.2 cm |
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Self-portrait (between 1770 and 1780) |
Silver pen drawing 8.8 × 7.2 cm |
Swiss Institute for Art Research in Zurich |
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Johann Gottlob Böhme (around 1775) |
Oil on canvas 90 × 68 cm |
Johann Gottlob Böhme (1717–1780), historian and rector of the University of Leipzig | ||
Julius Christian von Schauroth (1777) |
Oil on canvas oval 75 × 61 cm |
Julius Christian von Schauroth (died 1794), Saxon appellate judge and Canon of Naumburg | ||
Johanna Luise von Werthern (1777/78) |
Oil on canvas 83 × 67 cm |
Goethe House in Frankfurt am Main |
Countess Johanna Luise von Werthern (1752–1811), née Freiin vom und zum Stein , wife of the Saxon diplomat Jacob Friedemann von Werthern (1739–1806) | |
Elector Friedrich August III. of Saxony (1779) |
Oil on canvas 224 × 123 cm |
City History Museum Leipzig | Elector Friedrich August III. von Sachsen (1750–1827) in armor with an ermine purple coat and blue sash, the right hand on the command staff, the left on the dagger basket. For the full-length portraits of the princes, Graff resorted to Silvestre's canon of forms and others. In the portrait of the first Saxon king, he also adheres to this canon, especially with regard to the pose and decoration of the sitter. | |
Elector Friedrich Christian of Saxony (before 1780) |
Oil on canvas 225 × 123 cm |
City History Museum Leipzig | Elector Friedrich Christian of Saxony (1722–1763) leaning on the marshal's baton, in front of him is a throne chair on which the ermine cloak is spread, with the electoral hat on top . The portrait shows changes in the history of costume: while the traditional spa coat is draped over the table in front of the prince, he wears a more fashionable red velvet skirt with ermine cuffs on the sleeves over a breastplate. The wig has become shorter and tied at the neck. | |
Electress Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Saxony (before 1780) |
Oil on canvas 79 × 63 cm |
Electress Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Saxony (1724–1780), daughter of Elector Karl of Bavaria, wife of Elector Friedrich Christian of Saxony (1722–1763), also distinguished herself as a painter, composer and writer | ||
Johanna Henriette von Bestucheff-Rumin (before 1780) |
Oil on canvas 60 × 50 cm |
Johanna Henriette Louise Countess von Bestucheff-Rumin (1717–1787), wife of Mikhail Graf von Bestucheff-Rumin, Russian privy councilor and high court marshal, founder of the Bestucheff scholarship at the University of Leipzig | ||
Carl Christoph von Hoffmann and his second wife Friederike (around 1780) |
Oil on canvas 180 × 136 cm |
Lucerne Art Museum | Carl Christoph von Hoffmann (1735–1801), Chancellor of the University of Halle | |
Andrew of Riaucour (1780) |
Oil on canvas 150 × 110 cm |
Count Andreas von Riaucour (died 1794), Saxon envoy to the Palatinate court | ||
Family of the Rittmeister Ludwig Wilhelm von Stieglitz (1780/82) |
Oil on canvas 204.5 × 165.5 cm |
Oskar Reinhart Museum in Winterthur |
Rittmeister Wilhelm Ludwig von Stieglitz (1736–1796) with his wife, mother and his four children | |
Prince Heinrich of Prussia (around 1780) |
Oil on canvas 73.5 × 62.5 cm |
Goethe House in Frankfurt am Main |
Heinrich von Prussia (1726–1802) , in armor with shoulder strap of the Order of the Black Eagle . Prince Heinrich was a younger brother of Frederick II of Prussia . Handwritten replica by Anton Graff based on his first version from 1777, which was created at Rheinsberg Castle and shows the prince with a black collar. | |
Self-Portrait (1781) |
Oil on canvas
52.50 x 41.00 cm |
Gemäldegalerie Berlin | The unfinished composition is designed in the taste of Anton van Dyck . This is a replica of a painting that once belonged to Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki , which he confirmed in writing in 1782. | |
Frederick the Great (1781/86) |
Oil on canvas 350 × 286 cm |
Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam |
Friedrich II of Prussia (1712–1786), portrayed in a uniform with the breast star of the Order of the Black Eagle . A replica of the picture that used to be in Charlottenburg Palace is exhibited in Friedrich's death room in Sanssouci Palace. The original portrait was shown at the Berlin anniversary exhibition in 1886 and has been lost since 1898. | |
Johann Georg Zimmermann (medic) (1782) |
Oil on canvas 54 × 46 cm |
Gemäldegalerie Berlin | Johann Georg Zimmermann (physician) (1728–1795), Swiss doctor and writer | |
Marie Chodowiecka (1782) |
Oil on canvas 71.5 × 58 cm |
Jeanne Marie Chodowiecka (1728–1785), née Barez, wife of Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki (1726–1801) | ||
Georg Graff (1783) |
Oil on canvas 79.5 × 64.5 cm |
Anton Graff's son Georg (1777–1801) playing with soap bubbles. Inscribed on the reverse: A. Graff pinx./1783. The painting was owned by Salomon Hegner in 1815 . | ||
Carl Anton Graff (1783) |
Oil on canvas 79.5 × 64.5 cm |
Anton Graff's son Carl Anton (1774–1832), drawing | ||
Johann Ludwig von Reventlow (1783) |
Oil on canvas 71.5 × 52 cm |
Danish National History Museum Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød |
The philanthropist Johann Ludwig von Reventlow (1751–1801) was the owner of the Brahetrolleborg Palace and Estate and a promoter of agricultural reforms and the school system. He was therefore also called the Rousseau of Denmark . | |
Isabella von Broizem (1783) |
Oil on canvas |
Old National Gallery in Berlin |
Anton Graff chose an oval format for the portrait of Johanna Isabella von Broizem (1748–1832), née Brunier de Clarefond, wife of the Braunschweig nobility, lawyer Carl August Victor von Broizem. The sitter looks to the side with a tender smile. She wears a head veil over her tufted hair, her narrow upper body looks overly long. | |
Self-Portrait (1783) |
Chalk drawing 129 × 152 cm |
Inscribed by Graff himself: “Dreßden, 23 Oct. 1783 "with signature" Anton Graff " | ||
Henriette Crayen (around 1783) |
Oil on canvas 62.5 × 52 cm |
Henriette Crayen (1755–1832), née Leveaux, wife of the banker August Wilhelm Crayen (1751–1803), Prussian consul in Leipzig, Salonnière | ||
Henriette Crayen (1783/85) |
Oil on canvas oval 72 × 58 cm |
Henriette Crayen (1755–1832), née Leveaux, wife of the banker August Wilhelm Crayen (1751–1803), Prussian consul in Leipzig, Salonnière | ||
Johann Christian von Hofenfels (1783/84) |
Oil on canvas 149 × 110 cm |
City Museum Zweibrücken | Created in Dresden in 1783/84 together with the counterpart, which the wife of Johann Christian von Hofenfels , Friederike Auguste von Hofenfels, née. Baroness von Closen on Haydenburg, shows. | |
Elisa von der Recke (1784) |
Oil on canvas oval 44 × 33 cm |
Elisa von der Recke (1754–1833), daughter of Count Friedrich von Medem , writer, stepsister of Dorothea von Biron and patroness of Graff's later son-in-law Karl Ludwig Kaaz | ||
Self-portrait (1784/85) |
Oil on canvas, relined 62.5 × 52.5 cm |
Kunstmuseum Winterthur Gleimhaus in Halberstadt |
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Self-portrait with family (1785) |
Oil on canvas 196 × 184 cm |
Oskar Reinhart Museum in Winterthur |
In the background Anton Graff with the emerging portrait of his father-in-law Johann Georg Sulzer on the easel, in the foreground the two sons Carl Anton and Georg, who leans his arm on the tabletop to hold his head turned towards the viewer, next to Graff's wife Elisabetha Sophie Augusta with the daughter Caroline Susanne. As a commissioned work for Peter von Biron from 1786 in his possession at Schloss Friedrichsfelde or in his Berlin city palace, the Palais Kurland , from 1881 in the Schloss zu Sagan . | |
Johann Gottfried Herder (1785) |
Oil on canvas 52.2 × 42.5 cm |
Gleimhaus in Halberstadt |
On July 24, 1787 , Friedrich Schiller wrote to Christian Gottfried Körner about the Herder portrait : “I come from Herder. If you have seen his picture at Graff's, you can imagine him quite well, only that in the painting he is too light-hearted, more serious in his face (...) He is not very satisfied with his picture of Graff. He fetched it for me and made me compare it with him. He says that it looks like an Italian abbe. " | |
Michael Hieronymus Prince Radziwiłł (1785) |
Oil on canvas oval 65 × 49 cm |
Nieborów Castle | Michael Hieronymus Prince Radziwiłł (1744–1831), Lithuanian-Polish magnate and art collector | |
Stanisław Kostka Potocki (1785) |
Oil on canvas oval 68.5 × 55.0 cm |
National Museum in Warsaw |
Count Stanisław Kostka Potocki (1755–1821) with the breast star and shoulder ribbon of the White Eagle Order . The painting was initially in the Potocki Palace and has been on display in the Wilanów Palace , another former seat of the Potocki family , since 1821 . | |
Jan Potocki (1785) |
Oil on canvas 66 × 51 cm |
Warsaw Royal Castle | Count Jan Potocki (1761–1815), Polish writer | |
Juliane Wilhelmine Bause (1785) |
Oil on canvas 70 × 56 cm |
Old National Gallery in Berlin |
Juliane Wilhelmine Bause (1768–1837), daughter of the engraver Johann Friedrich Bause | |
Minna Körner (1785) |
Oil on canvas (on wood) 68 × 51 cm |
Minna Körner (1762–1843), daughter of the copper engraver Johann Michael Stock , painter and writer, wife of Christian Gottfried Körner | ||
Minna Körner (1785/86) |
Oil on canvas 69 × 56.5 cm |
Dresden City Museum | Minna Körner (1762–1843), daughter of the copper engraver Johann Michael Stock , painter and writer, wife of Christian Gottfried Körner | |
Sara Levy (1785/86) |
Silver pen drawing oval 100 × 80 cm |
Sara Levy (1761–1854), daughter of the banker Daniel Itzig , wife of the banker Samuel Salomon Levy (1760–1806), harpsichordist and music collector | ||
Prince Heinrich of Prussia (1786) |
Oil on canvas 122 × 86 cm |
Ansbach Castle | Prince Heinrich of Prussia (1726–1802) , with breast star of the Order of the Black Eagle | |
Carl Adolph Gottlob von Schachmann (1786) |
Oil on canvas 72 × 60 cm |
Carl Adolph Gottlob von Schachmann (1725–1789), German painter and naturalist | ||
Corona Schröter (1787) |
Oil on canvas oval 82 × 65 cm |
Castle Museum in Weimar |
Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schröter (1751–1802), German singer and actress | |
Self-Portrait (1787) |
Oil on canvas 76.5 × 64 cm |
Replicas in the Kunstmuseum Luzern and the Gemäldegalerie Berlin | ||
Wilhelmine von Lichtenau (1787/88) |
Oil on canvas 73 × 56 cm |
Berlin Museum in Berlin |
Wilhelmine von Lichtenau (1752–1820), née Enke, mistress of Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia , portrayed in a black mourning dress shortly after the death of their son Alexander von der Mark , who was presumably poisoned. | |
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1788) |
in Broomhall House ( Scotland ) |
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and Kincardine (1766–1841), British general, in the uniform of an officer of the 3rd Scottish Guard Regiment. Lord Elgin was a British peer , general, and diplomat . He was best known for the Elgin Marbles named after him . The portrait was shown at the exhibition of the Berlin Art Academy, which opened on September 25, 1788. Daniel Chodowiecki described the painting as an English gentleman , a 23-year-old youth, portraying an extremely determined expression, a broad high chest, broad shoulders, and beautiful loins and calves. The portrait is in Broomhall , the seat of the Earls of Elgin and Kincardine. | ||
Ernst Platner (around 1789) |
Oil on canvas 62.5 × 52 cm |
Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden |
Ernst Platner (1744–1818), physician and philosopher | |
Queen Friederike Luise (1788/89) |
Oil on canvas (color sketch) 46 × 36 cm |
Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin |
Queen Friederike Luise (1751–1805), daughter of Landgrave Ludwig IX. von Hessen-Darmstadt , wife of King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia | |
Heinrich XIV. Reuss zu Greiz (1789) |
Oil on canvas 150.5 × 99.5 cm |
Gemäldegalerie Berlin | Prince Heinrich XIV. (1749–1799), Austrian envoy to Prussia. This picture is about one of the knee pieces which, according to Anton Graff's contract of employment (1766), received higher wages than usual at the court of Electoral Saxony. | |
Queen Elisabeth Christine in widow costume (1789) |
Oil on canvas 148 × 98 cm |
Schönhausen Palace in Berlin |
Queen Elisabeth Christine of Prussia (1715–1797), daughter of Prince Ferdinand Albrecht II of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern , wife of Frederick the Great | |
Konstancja Rzewuska (1789) |
Art gallery in Lviv |
Konstancja Rzewuska (1761–1840), née Countess Lubomirska | ||
Konstancja Rzewuska (around 1790) |
Oil on canvas oval 86 × 62 cm |
Warsaw National Museum in Warsaw ( Wilanów Palace ) |
Konstancja Rzewuska (1761–1840), née Countess Lubomirska | |
Elisa von der Recke (before 1790) |
Oil on canvas 136.5 × 96 cm |
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Elisa von der Recke (1754–1833), writer. Gustav Parthey on the creation of the portrait: “Once she had a dinner with Goeckingk , Zollikofer and other notables at Nicolai's , and afterwards had to go to court. With her left she picked up the train of her gray silk dress, made a graceful greeting with her right and said: 'Well, gentlemen, I must recommend myself.' Enthusiastic about the indescribable dignity of this apparition, Goeckingk exclaimed: 'This is how Graff must paint it!' This idea was actually carried out later (…) “There were three versions of the portrait. | |
Joseph Friedrich von Racknitz (1790) |
Oil on canvas 82.5 × 67 cm |
Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden | Joseph Friedrich von Racknitz (1744-1818), Saxon court marsachall, with the Johanniterkreuz | |
Dorothea Schlegel (around 1790) |
Oil on canvas 44.2 × 37.5 cm |
Old National Gallery in Berlin |
Dorothea Schlegel (1764–1839), daughter of Moses Mendelssohn , wife of Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829), writer | |
Graff's wife with daughter Caroline (1790) |
Oil on canvas 136 × 100 cm |
Winterthur Art Museum | 1793 greatly reduced repetition of the picture in the Winterthur art museum dated 1790. | |
Friedrich Christian II of Schleswig-Holstein (around 1790) |
Oil on canvas 71 × 57 cm |
Danish National History Museum Frederiksborg Castle in Hilleröd |
Friedrich Christian II. (1765–1814), Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, with the breast star of the Elephant Order | |
Louise Auguste of Denmark (1791) |
Oil on canvas 197 × 118 cm |
Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen |
Duchess Louise Auguste of Denmark (1771–1843), legitimate daughter of King Christian VII of Denmark, wife of Friedrich Christian II of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg | |
Christoph Urbanowski (1791) |
Oil on canvas 112 × 91 cm |
Musee du Louvre in Paris |
Count Christoph Urbanowski (d. 1830), Polish art collector | |
Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (after 1790) |
Oil on canvas 52 × 42 cm |
Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736–1800), musician, composer and founder of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin | ||
Friedrich Schiller (1786–1791) |
Oil on canvas 71 × 57 cm |
Kügelgenhaus - Museum of the Dresden Romanticism in Dresden |
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), poet. This portrait took from 1786 to 1791 to be completed. The painting was often copied. The Schillerhaus in Weimar has a copy of the portrait made by Johann Christian Xeller. The names Schiller collar and Schillerlocke go back to this portrait. | |
Self-portrait (1790/1791) |
Oil on oak wood 70 × 55.8 cm |
Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg |
Graff's self-portrait was a gift to Christian Gottfried Körner . | |
Dorothea of Courland (1791) |
Oil on canvas 226.5 x 135.5 cm |
National Museum in Warsaw |
Dorothea von Biron (1761–1821), née von Medem , Duchess of Courland and Semigallia and Sagan , with an ermine coat and ducal hat to the left | |
Friedrich Wilhelm II. (1792) |
Oil on canvas 76 × 61 cm |
Friedrich Wilhelm II. (1744–1797), King of Prussia, with the breast star of the Order of the Black Eagle . On his behalf in 1788, Minister Friedrich Anton von Heynitz tried to poach Anton Graff to Berlin. | ||
Maximilian of Saxony (1792) |
Oil on canvas 70 × 56 cm |
National Gallery of Parma | Prince Maximilian of Saxony (1759-1838) | |
Caroline of Bourbon-Parma (1792) |
Oil on canvas 70.5 × 56 cm |
National Gallery of Parma | Caroline von Bourbon-Parma (1770–1804), daughter of Duke Ferdinand of Parma , wife of Prince Maximilian of Saxony (1759–1838) | |
Henriette Herz (1792) |
Oil on canvas 83 × 65 cm |
Old National Gallery in Berlin |
Henriette Herz (1764–1847), Salonnière, wife of the doctor Marcus Herz (1747–1803), who personally thanked Graff for the portrait of his wife in his letter of March 5, 1792. After her death in 1847, Schadow acquired the painting from the estate. From the possession of the sculptor's descendants, the portrait came into the collection of the National Gallery in 1889. | |
Detmar Basse (around 1792) |
Etching after an oil painting | Detmar Basse (1764–1836), entrepreneur and art collector. Engraving after one of the rare etchings by Anton Graff. Graff made the etching based on his portrait of Basse from 1792. Basse owed Graff the portrait with a poem. The original copper plate, 19 cm × 12 cm, was sold in the 125th auction at Boerner in Leipzig on March 21, 1914, cat. 228, auctioned. | ||
Carl Wilhelm Benno von Heynitz (1793) |
Oil on canvas 62.5 × 52.5 cm |
Carl Wilhelm Benno von Heynitz (1738–1801), Saxon mining captain | ||
Dietrich von Miltitz (1793) |
Oil on canvas 81 × 66 cm |
Dietrich Freiherr von Miltitz (1769–1853), Saxon and Prussian officer | ||
Franz Volkmar Reinhard (1793) |
Oil on canvas 79 × 56.5 cm |
Tartu University Library | Franz Volkmar Reinhard (1753–1812), Protestant theologian | |
Christoph Martin Wieland (1794) |
Oil on canvas 70.5 × 56.5 cm |
Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813), writer | ||
Adrian Ivanovich Diwow (1794) |
Oil on canvas 132 × 99 cm |
Pushkin Museum in Moscow |
Adrian Iwanowitsch Diwow (1749–1814), privy councilor, senator and envoy | |
Elisabeth Petrovna Diwowa (1794) |
Oil on canvas 132 × 99 cm |
Pushkin Museum in Moscow |
Elisabeth Petrovna Diwowa (1762–1813), née Buturlina, lady-in-waiting, wife of Adrian Ivanovich Diwow | |
Christian Gottlob Einert (1794) |
Oil on canvas 75.5 × 59.5 cm |
City History Museum Leipzig | Christian Gottlob Einert (1747–1723), lawyer and mayor of Leipzig | |
Self-portrait (1794/1795) |
Oil on canvas 168x 105 cm |
Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden |
Anton Graff presented this self-portrait in 1795 at the annual exhibition at the Dresden Art Academy . Presumably from the estate of Carl Anton Graff , the painting was purchased in 1832 for the Dresden Gemäldegalerie . | |
Self-Portrait (1795) |
Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden . A copy of an earlier motif-like picture (around 1776) is in the State Museums in Berlin. | Handwritten partial replica of self-portraits by 1794. Goethe commented on this picture when he Johann Gotthard von Müller attended in Stuttgart, which the Hüftporträt in copper stood out: I found "Professor Müller'n at the Graf fish portrait Graff Painted itself. The head is quite excellent, the artistic eye has the highest brilliance; I just don't like the position in which he leans over the back of a chair, all the less since this back is broken and the picture seems to be perforated below. The copper is also on the way to becoming very perfect. " | ||
Johann Rudolf Burckhardt (1795) |
Oil on canvas 114.5 × 84 cm |
Basel Historical Museum in the Haus zum Kirschgarten | Johann Rudolf Burckhardt (1750–1813), silk manufacturer and politician. Books and a statuette of Apollo can be seen in the background of the painting . | |
Friedrich August III. of Saxony (1795) |
Oil on canvas 226 × 137 cm |
Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden |
Elector Friedrich August III. von Sachsen (1750–1827) in a white uniform skirt with the blue shoulder band of the Order of the White Eagle , on the right on the table the hermelin-studded purple coat with elector's hat and command staff | |
Friedrich August von Sivers (1795) |
Oil on canvas 74.5 × 59.0 cm |
Kadrioru Art Museum in Tallinn |
Friedrich August von Sivers (1766–1823), Baltic landowner | |
Juliane Wilhelmine von Sivers (1795) |
Oil on canvas 74.5 × 58.8 cm |
Kadrioru Art Museum in Tallinn |
Juliane Wilhelmine Sophie von Sivers, wife of Friedrich August von Sivers (1766–1823), Baltic landowner | |
Christoph Kaufmann (1794) |
Oil on canvas 70 × 55 cm |
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Christoph Kaufmann (1753–1795), Swiss physician and philosopher | |
Elise Kaufmann (1795) |
Oil on canvas 71 × 56 cm |
Winterthur Art Museum | Elise Kaufmann, née Ziegler, wife of Christoph Kaufmann (1753–1795), Swiss physician and philosopher | |
Heinrich Gottfried Bauer (around 1795) |
Oil on canvas 71 × 56.5 cm |
Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden |
Heinrich Gottfried Bauer (1733–1811), legal scholar and rector of the University of Leipzig | |
Johann Gottlieb Naumann (around 1795) |
Chalk drawing 269 × 209 cm |
Kupferstichkabinett Dresden | Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741–1801), composer | |
Christian Gottfried Körner (around 1795) |
Oil on canvas 69.5 × 55.5 cm |
Dresden City Museum | Christian Gottfried Körner (1756–1831), lawyer and writer | |
Christoph Johann Friedrich Count of Medem (1796) |
Oil on canvas 70 × 56 cm |
Hermitage in Saint Petersburg |
Christoph Johann Friedrich Graf von Medem (1763–1838), Imperial Russian Chamberlain | |
Adrian Zingg (around 1796) |
Oil on canvas 160.5 × 98 cm |
Art Museum St. Gallen | Adrian Zingg (1734–1816), Swiss painter and engraver. Presumably Graff portrayed his friend Zingg in the Loschwitz area with a view from above of the Elbe and the right bank of the Elbe, the row of hills disappearing in the haze. In the background, two of Zingg's students serve as accessories. | |
Carl von Brühl (1796) |
Oil on canvas 133 × 96.5 cm |
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden | Count Carl von Brühl (1772–1837), general manager of the theater and museums in Berlin | |
Hans Moritz von Brühl (1796) |
Oil on canvas 134.5 × 97 cm |
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden |
Count Hans Moritz von Brühl (1746–1811), Prussian Colonel and General Manager of the Chausseen | |
Tina von Brühl (1796) |
Oil on canvas 134 × 98.5 cm |
Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden |
Countess Johanna Margarethe Christine ("Tina") von Brühl (1756–1816), wife of Count Hans Moritz von Brühl (1746–1811) | |
Wilhelmine Henry (1796) |
Oil on canvas 49 × 43 cm |
City Museum Berlin Foundation | Wilhelmine ("Minette") Henry (1789–1864), granddaughter of Daniel Chodowiecki , wife of Felix du Bois-Reymond (1782–1865) | |
Johann Heinrich Ziegler (1796) |
Oil on canvas 71 × 57 cm |
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Johann Heinrich Ziegler (1738–1818), Swiss doctor, chemist and entrepreneur | |
Georg Leopold Gogel (1796) |
Oil on canvas 130 × 95 cm |
Hermitage in St. Petersburg |
Georg Leopold Gogel, writer | |
Elisa von der Recke (1797) |
Oil on canvas 97.5 × 76 cm |
Gemäldegalerie in Berlin |
Elisa von der Recke (1754–1833), daughter of Count Friedrich von Medem , writer, depicted outdoors, leaning on a piece of wall. She wears a simple white chemise dress with a green-blue bosom band and a yellow scarf. Based on the English portrait painting, Graff gave her an arm posture that is supposed to illustrate her noble mood. | |
Johann Adolf von Thielmann (1797) |
Oil on canvas 200.0 × 114.0 cm |
Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg |
Baron Johann Adolf von Thielmann (1765–1824), officer in the Saxon, Russian and Prussian services | |
Portrait of a Man (1798) |
Hermitage in St. Petersburg |
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Heinrich Friedrich Innocenz Apel (1798) |
Oil on canvas 75.5 × 59.5 cm |
City History Museum in Leipzig |
Heinrich Friedrich Innocenz Apel (1732–1802), Saxon lawyer and mayor of the city of Leipzig | |
August Wilhelm Iffland (1800) |
Oil on canvas 240 × 160 cm |
Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin |
August Wilhelm Iffland (1759–1814), actor, as Pygmalion in the melodrama by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (inscribed below: A. Graff pinx: 1800). Iffland, dressed in a gray tunic and a light blue toga , is facing the statue of a woman and is about to say: “But you lack a soul, your figure cannot do without it.” The hand movement of the right arm follows the motif of Michelangelo's inspiration for Adam God the Father up. A cave entrance and the statue of Apollo Belvedere can be seen in the background . | |
Probst Johann Joachim Spalding in housecoat (1800) |
Oil on canvas 70 × 57 cm |
Old National Gallery in Berlin |
Johann Joachim Spalding (1714–1804), theologian. Handwritten replica by Anton Graff after his first version of this portrait. Graff is said to have considered the first version to be his best portrait. A color study for this picture is in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin. | |
Daniel Chodowiecki (1800) |
Oil on canvas 71.0 × 56.4 cm |
Gemäldegalerie in Berlin Neue Pinakothek in Munich |
Daniel Chodowiecki (1726–1801), engraver, friend and business partner of Anton Graff. On the left edge of the table is a grave stylus . After Chodowiecki's death, Graff received the portrait back in December 1801, presumably to make replicas of it . | |
Philipp Karl von Alvensleben (1800) |
Oil on canvas 133 × 101 cm |
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Philipp Karl von Alvensleben (1745–1802), Prussian minister and envoy in Saxony, with the Cross of St. John and the Order of the Black Eagle | |
Henriette Herz (around 1800) |
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Henriette Herz (1764–1847), Salonnière, wife of the doctor Marcus Herz (1747–1803) | ||
Praying Old Man (1802) |
Oil on canvas 71.5 × 57 cm |
Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig |
Shoemaker Johann Gottlob Reinhardt from Dresden. Philipp Otto Runge said in 1802 at the exhibition of the Dresden Art Academy: "Von Graff, a head of an old cobbler, quite incomparable ..." | |
Tomorrow (The Elbe near Blasewitz) (around 1800) |
Oil on canvas 40 × 49 cm |
Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden |
Elbe loop above Dresden near Blasewitz | |
Midday (Plauen near Dresden) (around 1800) |
Oil on canvas 38 × 48.5 cm |
Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden |
Houses on the Weißeritz in Plauen near Dresden | |
Evening (entrance in Plauenschen Grund near Dresden) (around 1800) |
Oil on canvas 38 × 50 cm |
Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden |
Entrance in the Plauenschen Grund near Dresden, the waterfall at the Hegereiterbrücke | |
Night (Blasewitz near Dresden) (around 1800) |
Oil on canvas 39 × 48 cm |
Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden |
Moonlight on the Elbe in Blasewitz near Dresden | |
Female portrait (around 1800) |
Oil on canvas 65 × 51 cm |
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Johann Christoph Adelung (1803) |
Oil on canvas 73 × 58 cm |
Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library | Johann Christoph Adelung (1732–1806), German librarian and linguist | |
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Funck (1804) |
Oil on canvas 77.5 × 61 cm |
Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden |
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Funck (1761–1828), Saxon general | |
Self-Portrait (1804) |
Oil on canvas 58.5 × 48 cm |
Old National Gallery in Berlin |
No artist portrayed himself as often in the 18th century as Anton Graff. Graff suffered from poor eyesight at an advanced age. Several self-portraits therefore show him wearing a visor or glasses. | |
Carl Adolf von Carlowitz (1805) |
Oil on canvas 224 × 133 cm |
Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden |
Carl Adolf von Carlowitz (1771-1837), Heir to Großhartmannsdorf and Liebstadt , in the uniform of a captain of the Saxon Garde du Corps , right in the background Castle Kuckuckstein . The lower part of the painting was largely destroyed and painted over. When Johann Georg Meusel states: "Supports up with both hands on his sword basket." The sitting now visible, painted by a later restorer sword so wrong. The picture was shown at the exhibition of the Kunstakademie Dresden, which opened on March 5, 1806, after which Hans Georg von Carlowitz wrote to his brother on March 16, 1806: “The art exhibition is excellent (...) Your picture causes a great sensation and it deserves it also, it is really painted con amore (...) Tell me what kind of picture Graff takes like yours. Maybe I'll have myself painted for my wife, who has plagued me amazingly since she saw you. " | |
Maria Josepha von Carlowitz (1805) |
Oil on canvas 223 × 114 cm |
Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library | Maria Josepha von Carlowitz (1775–1834), née Countess von Pötting and Persing, wife of Carl Adolf von Carlowitz | |
Self-Portrait (1805) |
Oil on canvas 71 × 56.6 cm |
Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden |
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Johann Friedrich Bause (1807) |
Oil on canvas 71 × 57.5 cm |
Moritzburg Art Museum in Halle (Saale) |
Johann Friedrich Bause (1738–1814), German engraver, made over 40 copper engravings from Graff's paintings. The picture shows Bause in three-quarter profile to the left in Graff's preferred section of the bust. He is portrayed doing his typical job, a copper plate in front of him, the grave stylus in his right hand, as if he were looking up from work. Goethe wrote about the portrait: "Fortunately there is the picture after Graff von Bause, which perfectly depicts the man as he appeared to us, with his gaze of contemplation and contemplation." | |
Siegfried August Mahlmann (1807) |
Oil on canvas 71 × 57 cm |
Siegfried August Mahlmann (1771–1826), German writer | ||
Self-Portrait (1808) |
Oil on canvas, relined 69 × 56 cm |
Swiss Institute for Art Research in Zurich |
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Karl Ludwig Kaaz (1808) |
Oil on canvas 76 × 62.5 cm |
Kunsthalle Hamburg | Karl Ludwig Kaaz (1773–1810), German painter, son-in-law of Anton Graff | |
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra (1808) |
Chalk drawing 377 × 277 cm |
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra (1740–1819), Saxon mining captain | ||
Self-Portrait (1809) |
Oil on canvas 200 × 118 cm |
Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig | Graff in front of the easel, resting his left knee on an upholstered chair. This picture was in the possession of Konstantin Karl Falkenstein , Johan Christian Clausen Dahl and Carl Anton Graff and was acquired in 1906 from the possession of the von Savigny family. The museum also owns the composition study for this painting, a white charcoal and chalk drawing on brown paper. | |
Carl Anton Graff (1809) |
Oil on canvas 152.5 × 98 cm |
National Museum Oslo | Carl Anton Graff (1774–1832), painter, son of Anton Graff | |
Karl Friedrich Demiani (1810) |
Oil on canvas 61.8 × 49.5 cm |
Gemäldegalerie Berlin | Karl Friedrich Demiani (1768–1823), German painter, first inspector of the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden . In her right hand, Demiani seems to be holding a miniature indicated by a few lines of paint. A study drawing by Graff, created in 1810 and depicting this hand, is preserved in the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts . | |
Johann Jakob Mesmer (1810) |
Oil on canvas 67 × 52 cm |
Johann Jakob Mesmer (1740–1814), Reformed preacher in Dresden | ||
Johann Georg Friedrich von Einsiedel |
Oil on canvas 93 × 73 cm |
Johann Georg Friedrich von Einsiedel (1730–1811), Saxon Minister | ||
Portrait of a Man (1810) |
Oil on canvas 68.5 × 53.5 cm |
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Detlev Carl von Einsiedel (before 1813) |
Oil on canvas 84 × 64.5 cm |
Picture gallery Dresden | Detlev Carl von Einsiedel (1737–1810), Saxon minister and entrepreneur | |
Detlev von Einsiedel (before 1813) |
Oil on canvas 69.5 × 52 cm |
Detlev von Einsiedel (1773–1861), Saxon statesman and ironworker | ||
Dora Stock (before 1813) |
Oil on canvas oval 70 × 55 cm |
Goethe House in Frankfurt am Main |
Johanna Dorothea Stock (1759–1832), painter | |
Johann Gottlob Reinhardt (before 1814) |
Oil on canvas |
Art collection of the University of Göttingen | Johann Gottlob Reinhardt, shoemaker in Dresden, model for the "praying old man" from 1802 | |
Duchess Philippine Charlotte of Braunschweig |
Oil on canvas 137 × 99 cm |
Duchess Philippine Charlotte von Braunschweig (1716–1801), daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, wife of Karl I of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel | ||
Self-portrait "with the green umbrella" (1813) |
Oil on canvas 65 × 51 cm |
Old National Gallery in Berlin |
Graff's biographer Ulrich Hegner wrote in 1815 in the XI. New Year's piece of the Zürcher Künstler-Gesellschaft (p. 15) about the last self-portrait: “Only a few months before his end he was still painting his own picture, which in terms of mental treatment and resemblance is inferior to none, although more with the eyes of the mind than with the physical sight taken and thrown down with a trembling hand. " |
See also
List of the people portrayed by Anton Graff
literature
- Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. German publishing house for art history, Berlin 1967.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dresden State Art Collections
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 152.
- ^ National Museum Zurich
- ^ National Museum Zurich
- ^ City History Museum Leipzig
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ museum-digital saxony-Anhalt
- ^ Art collection of the University of Leipzig
- ^ Art collection of the University of Leipzig
- ↑ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b National Museums in Berlin
- ^ Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
- ^ National History Museum Frederiksborg Castle
- ↑ a b Art Collection of the University of Leipzig
- ^ Art collection of the University of Leipzig
- ^ City History Museum Leipzig
- ^ National Museum Warsaw
- ^ National Museum Warsaw
- ↑ a b Art Collection of the University of Leipzig
- ^ Art collection of the University of Leipzig
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ^ Art collection at the University of Leipzig
- ^ City History Museum Leipzig
- ^ Art collection at the University of Leipzig
- ^ Art collection at the University of Leipzig
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ a b museum-digital saxony-Anhalt
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 352.
- ↑ a b c City History Museum Leipzig
- ↑ Munich City Museum
- ↑ New Pinakothek Munich
- ↑ a b c Germanisches Nationalmuseum
- ↑ State Art Gallery Karisruhe
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 260.
- ^ City History Museum Leipzig
- ^ City History Museum Leipzig
- ↑ Lucerne Art Museum
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 119.
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 176.
- ↑ a b National Museums in Berlin
- ↑ museum-digital
- ↑ Swiss Institute for Art Research
- ↑ museum-digital saxony-Anhalt
- ^ Museum Oskar Reinhart
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 168.
- ↑ museum-digital
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, pp. 200f.
- ^ Wilanów Palace Museum
- ↑ Wilanów Palace Museum, Warsaw: Archive of Wilanów Palace and directory of the collected pictures by Potocki from 1798
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ Lucerne Art Museum
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 104f.
- ↑ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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- ↑ a b National Museums in Berlin
- ↑ Gustav Parthey: Jugenderinnerungen. Handwriting for Friends Volume 1, Berlin Schade 1871, p. 39.
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 303.
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ Swiss Institute for Art Research
- ^ National History Museum Frederiksborg Castle
- ^ Rosenborg Castle Collection
- ↑ Musee du Louvre
- ↑ Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation
- ^ National Gallery of Parma
- ↑ National Gallery Parma ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b National Museums in Berlin
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, pp. 203f.
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 55.
- ^ Pushkin Museum
- ^ City History Museum Leipzig
- ^ Dresden State Art Collections
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 158.
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ^ Goethe's posthumous works (third volume). From a trip to Switzerland via Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Stuttgart and Tübingen in 1797. JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung , Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1833, p. 87.
- ↑ Basel Historical Museum
- ↑ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kadrioru Art Museum
- ↑ Kadrioru Art Museum
- ^ Dresden State Art Collections
- ↑ Otto Waser: Anton Graff. Published by Huber & Co., Frauenfeld and Leipzig 1926, p. 68.
- ^ Hermitage St. Petersburg
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ^ Germanisches Nationalmuseum
- ^ City History Museum Leipzig
- ↑ Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 216.
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 339.
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ New Pinakothek Munich
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 87.
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 308.
- ^ Dresden State Art Collections
- ^ Dresden State Art Collections
- ^ Dresden State Art Collections
- ↑ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 81.
- ^ Saxon State Library
- ↑ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b museum-digital saxony-Anhalt
- ↑ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : From my life. Poetry and Truth (Part Four, Book Eighteenth). Goethe's works. Complete edition last hand. JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1833.
- ↑ Swiss Institute for Art Research
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 164.
- ^ National Museum Oslo
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ Goethe House Frankfurt
- ↑ State Museums in Berlin
- ↑ Otto Waser: Anton Graff. Published by Huber & Co., Frauenfeld and Leipzig 1926, p. 65.