Seated in his library at a table covered with a Persian carpet. He takes a document with the date from a boy 1708. In the background there are bookshelves and red drapery. Gold frame. According to the old inscription on the back from the Dresden gallery.
Provenance
Collection of Paul Strassmann; Auction Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin: Gemälde alter und neuerer Meister: Antiquitäten und Kunstgewerbe; 12. und 13. Februar 1937, lot # 225; buyer unknown; whereabouts unknown.
Literature / Source
Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin: Gemälde alter und neuerer Meister: Antiquitäten und Kunstgewerbe; 12. und 13. Februar 1937
