Balthasar Denner

 

Hamburg 1685 - 1749 Rostock

 

Portrait of the Artists’ Daughter Katharina Denner, with a Tulip and Glass of Water, 1728

Oil on copper

34 x 20,1 cm

Signed and dated lower left: "Denner 1728”

 

 PROVENANCE:

Gottfried Christoph Beireis (1730 – 1809), Helmstedt, Germany (see inscriptions on the frames)

Private collection, American Midwest

Collection Richard D. Pomeroy, Pasadena, California

 

Another portrait of this daughter of Denner is today in the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen (Inv. No. KMS sp 838).

Dr. Friederike Drinkuth, Schwerin, kindly helped documenting these paintings.

Together with the Portrait of the Artists’ Son, Jacob Denner (see here)

Ute Mannhardt will include both paintings in her catalogue raisonné, currently in preparation.