This pastell on parchment was created around  1800 and due to the fully identical style , composition, technique and time of creation was attributed to the hand of renown German portrait painter Johann Heinrich Schroeder (1757-1812).

it depicts, probably due to the physiognomical similarity, portrait of Maria Pavlovna Romanowa of Russia, as young Grand Duchess of Sachsen-Weimar.

Johann Heinrich Schröder studied at the Academy of Arts in Kassel („the Académie at that time de Peinture “). Like his teacher Johann Heinrich Tischbein sen. , he provided mainly small portraits n Pastell technique. Schröder was for different prince houses actively, among other since 1785 as court painter at the court of Braunschweig and later at the cort of Baden. In Berlin he can be proven in the years 1790 and around 1800. On study trips, which led him 1793 to England and the Netherlands, he trained himself further and took up the won influences to his painting. Johann Heinrich Schröder is considered as one the best Pastell painters. of the end of 18th century. 

Provenance: private estate in Leipzig.

Literature: Thieme/Becker Vo11, 1915; Vo5, 1961. Jansa, 1912; Boetticher I.1, 1891

Inscription: unsigned, on the backside is inscription  of previous owner : (…) Grete Böhme Leipzig‘ .

Technique: pastel on  parchment, original period gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed 11 1/2” x 13 3/4” (29 x 35 cm ), framed w 16 1/8” x h 18 1/2” (41 x 47 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.